Characteristics of online and offline health information seekers and factors that discriminate between them.

By Shelia R. Cotten, Sipi S Gupta. Social Science & Medicine (1967), 2004

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The Digital Divide: Current and Future Research Directions (2005, unknown): “Cotten and Gupta (2004) offer another technical design study that examines the relevance of Web content to the tendency of users to use online resources in the provisioning of health services.”
Health information seeking in the digital age: An analysis of health information seeking behavior among US adults (2017, background): “This finding, supported by other studies (Cotten & Gupta, 2004; Rains, 2007), is concerning.”
Guest Editorial, part of a Special Feature on Education and Differential Vulnerability to Natural Disasters Is Education a Key to Reducing Vulnerability to Natural Disasters and hence Unavoidable Climate Change? (2014, background): “Secondly, highly educated individuals usually have diversified communication linkages and have better access to useful information (Cotten and Gupta 2004, Wen et al. 2011, Neuenschwander et al. 2012).”
Digital Inequality (2008, background): “Research on health information seeking has shown that individuals who seek health materials online are likely to be younger than those who report seeking health information only offline (Cotten & Gupta, 2004).”
Preferences for e-mental health services amongst an online Australian sample? (2010, result): “This is contrary to previous research (e.g., Cotton & Gupta, 2004) that has often found that people using the internet for health-related activities are younger, single, higher educated, and female.”
Public Health and Online Misinformation: Challenges and Recommendations. (2019, background): “…Public Health and Online Misinformation 435 Keselman et al.(59) investigated online health information-seeking by asking laypeople to read a hypothetical scenario regarding a relative who was experiencing stable angina symptoms (chest pain) and subsequently search the internet for…”
Social capital and social support on the web: the case of an internet mother site. (2005, background): “Evidence suggests that those who seek health information on the internet have higher socioeconomic status than those who seek offline health information (Cotten and Gupta 2004).”
Trust and Credibility in Web-Based Health Information: A Review and Agenda for Future Research (2017, background): “Hypothesis Factor [45,67,79-82] Women go online/trust online info more than men Gender [30,45,83-85] No difference between genders [45,79-81,83,85,86] People with higher education levels go online /trust online info more Education [ Not surprisingly, at the opposite end of the age scale, young…”
Green Returns to Education: Does Schooling Contribute to Pro-Environmental Behaviours? Evidence from Thailand (2017, background): “Secondly, many empirical studies have shown that people with more years of formal education have access to more sources and types of information (Cotten and Gupta 2004; Neuenschwander et al. 2012; Wen et al. 2011).”
Understanding Health Literacy for Strategic Health Marketing: eHealth Literacy, Health Disparities, and the Digital Divide (2008, background): “…health communication may suggest why previous research indicates the great potential of the Internet for disseminating health information to the general public as well as a tool that can be utilized to reach low-income, less educated, and minority populations (Cotten and Gupta, 2004).”