scholarly journals Predictors of Health Information Seeking Behavior: A Systematic Review and Network Analysis (Preprint)

10.2196/21680 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ardalan Mirzaei ◽  
Parisa Aslani ◽  
Edward Joseph Luca ◽  
Carl Richard Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Information Seeking Behavior ◽  
Health Information Seeking ◽  
Health Information Seeking Behavior ◽  
Seeking Behavior

Characteristics of the health information seeking behavior of LGBTQ+ individuals: a systematic review on information types, information sources and influencing factors

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Romy Menghao Jia ◽  
Jia Tina Du ◽  
Yuxiang Chris Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Information Seeking Behavior ◽  
Health Information Seeking ◽  
Exclusion Criteria ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Health Information Seeking Behavior ◽  
Seeking Behavior

PurposeLesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) individuals' health information seeking is an important topic across multiple disciplines and areas. The aim of this systematic review is to create a holistic view of sexual and gender minority individuals' health information seeking reported in multidisciplinary studies, with regard to the types of health information LGBTQ+ individuals sought and information sources they used, as well as the factors influencing their health information seeking behavior.Design/methodology/approachThe review is based on the literature search in 10 major academic databases. A set of inclusion and exclusion criteria was applied to identify studies that provide evidence on LGBTQ+ individuals' health information seeking behavior. The studies were first screened by title and abstract to determine whether they met the inclusion criteria. The full texts of each relevant study were obtained to confirm whether the exclusion criteria were met. The reference lists of the included studies were manually scanned. The relevant information was then extracted from selected articles and analyzed using thematic content analysis.FindingsA seed set of 3,122 articles published between 1997 and 2020 was evaluated, and 46 total articles were considered for further analysis. The review results show that two major categories of health information sought by LGBTQ+ individuals were sexual and nonsexual, which were further classified into 17 specific types. In terms of health information sources, researchers have reported that online resources, interpersonal sources and traditional media were frequently used. Moreover, 25 factors affecting LGBTQ+ individuals' health information seeking were identified from the literature.Originality/valueThrough evidence-based understanding, this review preliminarily bridged the knowledge gap in understanding the status quo of studies on LGBTQ+ individuals' health information seeking and proposed the potential research directions that information science researchers could contribute to this important area.

scholarly journals Predictors of Health Information Seeking Behavior: A Systematic Review and Network Analysis (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ardalan Mirzaei ◽  
Parisa Aslani ◽  
Edward Joseph Luca ◽  
Carl Richard Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Systematic Search ◽  
Information Seeking Behavior ◽  
Health Information Seeking ◽  
Health Information Seeking Behavior ◽  
Seeking Behavior ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Over Time

BACKGROUND People engage in health information seeking behavior (HISB) to support health outcomes. Being able to predict a person’s behavior can inform the development of interventions to guide effective health information seeking. Obtaining a comprehensive list of the predictors of HISB through a systematic search of the literature and exploring the inter-relationship of these predictors are important first steps in this process. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to; identify significant predictors of health information seeking behavior (HISB) in the primary literature; develop a common taxonomy for predictors of HISB; and identify the evolution of the HISB research field. METHODS A systematic search of PsycINFO and Scopus was conducted for all years up to and including 10/12/2019. Quantitative studies identifying significant predictors of HISB were included. Information seeking was defined broadly and not restricted to any one source of health information. Data extraction of the significant predictors was performed by two authors. A network analysis was conducted to observe relationships between predictors over time. RESULTS A total of 6,402 articles were retrieved, and after screening, 300 studies were retained for analysis. A total of 1,413 significant predictors were identified. These predictors were categorized into 67 predictor clusters. The most central predictors were age, education, gender, health condition and financial income. Over time, the inter-relationship of predictors in the network became denser, with the growth of new predictor grouping reaching saturation (1 new predictor identified) in the past 7 years, despite increasing publication rates. CONCLUSIONS A common taxonomy was developed, classifying 67 significant predictors of HISB. A novel temporal network was developed to track the evolution of research in HISB field, showing a maturation of new predictor terms and an increase in primary studies reporting multiple significant predictors of HISB. HISB research literature has experienced evolution with decreased characterization of novel predictors of HISB over time. A parallel increase in the complexity of predicting HISB has been identified with an increase in literature describing multiple significant predictors of HISB.

scholarly journals Online Health Information Seeking Behavior: A Systematic Review

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 1740
Author(s):  
Xiaoyun Jia ◽  
Yan Pang ◽  
Liangni Sally Liu
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Information Seeking Behavior ◽  
Online Health Information ◽  
Health Information Seeking ◽  
Health Information Seeking Behavior ◽  
Seeking Behavior ◽  
Online Health Information Seeking

The last five years have seen a leap in the development of information technology and social media. Seeking health information online has become popular. It has been widely accepted that online health information seeking behavior has a positive impact on health information consumers. Due to its importance, online health information seeking behavior has been investigated from different aspects. However, there is lacking a systematic review that can integrate the findings of the most recent research work in online health information seeking, and provide guidance to governments, health organizations, and social media platforms on how to support and promote this seeking behavior, and improve the services of online health information access and provision. We therefore conduct this systematic review. The Google Scholar database was searched for existing research on online health information seeking behavior between 2016 and 2021 to obtain the most recent findings. Within the 97 papers searched, 20 met our inclusion criteria. Through a systematic review, this paper identifies general behavioral patterns, and influencing factors such as age, gender, income, employment status, literacy (or education) level, country of origin and places of residence, and caregiving role. Facilitators (i.e., the existence of online communities, the privacy feature, real-time interaction, and archived health information format), and barriers (i.e., low health literacy, limited accessibility and information retrieval skills, low reliable, deficient and elusive health information, platform censorship, and lack of misinformation checks) to online health information seeking behavior are also discovered.

Health Information Seeking Behavior of Breast Cancer Patients: A Qualitative Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramin Ravangard ◽  
Kefayat Chaman-Ara ◽  
Elham Bahrami ◽  
mohammad amin bahrami
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Information Seeking Behavior ◽  
Health Information Seeking ◽  
Breast Cancer Patients ◽  
Cochrane Database ◽  
Health Information Seeking Behavior ◽  
Seeking Behavior

Abstract Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer of women worldwide. This study was aimed to review systematically the current literature on the health information seeking behavior of breast cancer patients and to conduct the qualitative analysis of findings. Methods: We searched PubMed, Web of Science, Science Direct, CINHAL, Embase, Google Scholar, Cochrane database of systematic review, PSYCINO, SID and Magiran databases. A total of 60 articles included in the study. Findings of all studies were extracted, the content analysis was conducted and a series of themes and categories were identified Results: 13 themes were identified in the published studies. The related findings of all themes are presented and discussed. Conclusion: We summarized and classified all the findings of studies on the health information seeking behavior of breast cancer patients. Our classification can be used for the comprehensive examination of the breast cancer patients’ health information seeking behavior to develop improvement policies.

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