Information Seeking and Avoiding in Health Contexts

By Dale E. Brashers, Daena J. Goldsmith, Elaine Hsieh. 2002

664 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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In General Health Professions

1. Carmen G. Loiselle
2. Sylvie D. Lambert
3. Mohan J. Dutta-Bergman
4. M. Drummond
5. S. Elliott
6. Graham D. Bodie
7. Mohan Jyoti Dutta

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Stephen Procopio
2. Carmen G. Loiselle
3. Sylvie D. Lambert
4. Claire H. Procopio
5. M. Drummond
6. S. Elliott

Citations in the corpus

• Health Information—Seeking Behavior (2007, background): “For example, individuals might seek as much information as possible and wish to share it with their partners, whereas partners might decide to avoid discussion on information-related issues; this pattern of communication might, in turn, lead individuals to refrain from seeking and/or disclosing furt”
• Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? Internet Communication, Geographic Community, and Social Capital in Crisis (2007, background): “However, the theory has expanded to include workplace, health, and even media-generated uncertainty through news coverage of traumatic events, such as the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 (Boyle et al., 2004; Brashers, Goldsmith, & Hsieh, 2002; Morrison, 2002; Seeger et al., 2002).”
• Avoiding versus seeking: the relationship of information seeking to avoidance, blunting, coping, dissonance, and related concepts. (2005, background): “The patient, in turn, might avoid information to maintain uncertainty or even seek out uncertainty-increasing information [35].”
• Primary Sources of Health Information: Comparisons in the Domain of Health Attitudes, Health Cognitions, and Health Behaviors (2004, background): “In a recent colloquium on information seeking published in Human Communication Research, health communication scholars Brashers, Goldsmith, and Hsieh (2002) pointed out the complexity of health information seeking and recommended a streamlined approach to the exploration of the construct.”
• An Augmented Risk Information Seeking Model: The Case of Global Warming (2007, neutral): “Brashers, Goldsmith, & Hsieh, 2002 ; Brashers, Neidig, & Goldsmith, 2004 ; Case, Andrews, Johnson, & Allard, 2005 ; Feltwell & Rees, 2004 ).”