Men's information-seeking behavior regarding cancer risk and screening: A meta-narrative systematic review

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.

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Clinical information seeking behavior of physicians: A systematic review

International Journal of Medical Informatics ◽

10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2020.104144 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 139 ◽

pp. 104144 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Azra Daei ◽

Mohammad Reza Soleymani ◽

Hasan Ashrafi-rizi ◽

Ali Zargham-Boroujeni ◽

Roya Kelishadi

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Information Seeking ◽

Clinical Information ◽

Information Seeking Behavior ◽

Seeking Behavior

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Online Health Information Seeking Behavior: A Systematic Review

Healthcare ◽

10.3390/healthcare9121740 ◽

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.

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