Consumer health information seeking on the Internet: the state of the art.

By R. J. Cline, K. M. Haynes. Health Education Research, 2001

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Information Systems

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Handbook of Consumer Finance Research (2008, background): “Consumers with limited information- evaluation skills are especially vulnerable to such deception (Cline & Haynes, 2001 ).”
Primary Sources of Health Information: Comparisons in the Domain of Health Attitudes, Health Cognitions, and Health Behaviors (2004, background): “The emerging need for a systematic approach to studying consumer health information seeking was also reiterated in the survey of the literature by Cline and Haynes (2001) who pointed out the scarcity of scholarship on consumer information processing.”
eHealth Literacy and Web 2.0 Health Information Seeking Behaviors Among Baby Boomers and Older Adults (2015, positive): “Greater access to the Internet has increased the availability of health information [3-5], yet many Internet users continue to face challenges accessing relevant and literacy-sensitive health and medical content that is of high quality [4,6-13].”
Influences, usage, and outcomes of Internet health information searching: Multivariate results from the Pew surveys (2006, background): “…(cost, technical language, unequal access), obstacles (overload, disorganization, complex searching commands and medical language, impermanence), and dangers (lack of peer review, inaccurate or misleading information, risk-promoting messages, online reinforcement of pathologies, addiction) [1] [2].”
Adaptation of machine translation for multilingual information retrieval in the medical domain (2014, background): “cz (Pavel Pecina) ing users of the Internet and the lack of content in their native language, support for them to search and utilize these English sources is required if the value of the information available on the Internet is to be fully realized [2].”
Promoting older adults’ well-being through Internet training and use (2007, background): “These opportunities include online therapy and counseling (Barak, 2004), online support groups (Meier, 2004) and health-related information (Cline & Haynes, 2001).”
The Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS): Development, Design, and Dissemination (2004, methodology): “…for health information consumers to hear of a breaking story in the news, research it on the Internet, and then show up at their physicians’ office armed with printouts, photocopies of news stories, and lots of questions (Cline & Haynes, 2001; Fox & Rainie, 2002; Murray et al., 2003; NCI, 2000).”
Patients' and health professionals' use of social media in health care: motives, barriers and expectations. (2013, background): “By extending the interactivity between the patient and healthcare provider, the relation between them can be improved [18].”
Effects of Online Health Sources on Credibility and Behavioral Intentions (2010, background): “In fact, information completeness is regarded as the most important information criterion in patients’ decision making (Cline & Haynes, 2001; Eysenbach et al., 2002), given its influence on patient decision making (Dutta-Bergman, 2004).”
An Empirical Study of Online Supports among Patients (2010, neutral): “In his well-known Presidential Address and resulting article, Cobb (1976) explains that the belief of supportive interactions among people is protective against the health consequences of life stress.”
Rethinking Communication in the E-health Era (2003, background): “It is also difficult for many people to navigate the massive information on the Internet using a general search engine ( Cline & Haynes, 2001 ).”