scholarly journals Clarification of Issues Raised in the Editorial “A New Age for Cancer Information Seeking: Are We Better Off Now?”

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 893-893
Author(s):  
Neeraj K. Arora
Keyword(s):  
Information Seeking ◽  
New Age ◽  
Cancer Information ◽  
Cancer Information Seeking

Cancer Information Seeking among Black and White Adults: Results from the 2003 and 2005 Health Information National Trends Surveys

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 16-29
Author(s):  
Jiali Ye ◽  
Zhiheng Xu ◽  
Bamidele Adesunloye
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Cancer Information ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Black And White ◽  
National Trends ◽  
Cancer Information Seeking ◽  
White Adults

Information seeking has significant impact on improving cancer preventive activities and health decision making. This study sought to compare Black and White adults on cancer information seeking and the choice of primary information sources. Non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White adults completed Health Information National Trends Surveys (HINTS) collected in 2003 and in 2005. The results of bivariate analyses showed that Whites were more likely than Blacks to be cancer information seekers for both years (2003: 49.0% vs. 40.8%, p < .001; 2005: 54.6% vs. 46.9%, p = .008). However, after controlling for sociodemographic variables, race was not significantly associated with cancer information seeking. Both racial groups increased their likelihood of cancer information seeking from 2003 to 2005, although the increase was only statistically significant for Whites ( p < .001). Health providers and the Internet were the top two most selected primary cancer information sources for both racial groups. These findings indicate that sociodemographic factors, such as gender, education, and cancer history, may shape the racial difference in health information seeking among the general population. Among all the information sources, health care providers and the Internet play the most important role in providing cancer-related information.

Cancer Information Seeking and Awareness of Cancer Information Sources among Korean Americans

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyeung Mi Oh ◽  
Gary L. Kreps ◽  
Jungmi Jun ◽  
Lolita Ramsey
Keyword(s):  
Information Seeking ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Korean Americans ◽  
Cancer Information ◽  
Cancer Information Seeking

scholarly journals Looking Beyond the Internet: Examining Socioeconomic Inequalities in Cancer Information Seeking Among Cancer Patients

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (8) ◽  
pp. 806-817 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chul-joo Lee ◽  
A. Susana Ramírez ◽  
Nehama Lewis ◽  
Stacy W. Gray ◽  
Robert C. Hornik
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Socioeconomic Inequalities ◽  
Cancer Information ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Cancer Information Seeking

Cancer-information Seeking

2006 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-160
Author(s):  
D.A.L. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Information Seeking ◽  
Cancer Information ◽  
Cancer Information Seeking

Cancer Information Seeking Among African Americans

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vetta L. Sanders Thompson ◽  
Patricia Cavazos-Rehg ◽  
Kimberly Tate ◽  
Amy Gaier
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Cancer Information ◽  
Cancer Information Seeking

Contextualizing place and health in rural America: Cancer information seeking across four categories of an urban/rural continuum.

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e18124-e18124
Author(s):  
Gilberto Lopez ◽  
Heather Mattie ◽  
Eva Culakova ◽  
Po-Ju Lin ◽  
Charles Stewart Kamen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cancer Information ◽  
Rural America ◽  
Housing Status ◽  
Place And Health ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Cancer Information Seeking

e18124 Background: Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States. Despite decreases in cancer mortality overall, rural populations continue to have higher prevalence and slower reduction of cancer death rates. As a preventive approach to combat cancer, the National Cancer Institute continues to prioritize providing the public with health information. Yet, little is known about cancer information-seeking across rural America. Methods: Using Rural-Urban Commuting Area Codes (RUCAs), from the 2018 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS-5) database we analyze the odds of looking for information about cancer across four geo-political contexts (n = 2,625): urban, large-rural, small-rural, and isolated-rural areas, thus giving us a potentially more detailed understanding of place and health across the urban-rural continuum. Using an established social determinants framework, a series of logistic regression models were fitted to estimate odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Results: Across all models, those living in large rural towns had about 1.5 times the odds of looking for cancer information compared to urban-dwellers (p < 0.05) while those living in remote rural areas had about 0.5 times the odds (p < 0.05). There was no difference for those living in small rural towns. Additionally, gender, race/ethnicity, marital status, education, housing status, and internet availability were independently associated with information-seeking (p < 0.05). Conclusions: In this study, compared to urban-dwellers, those living in large rural towns appeared to have increased odds of looking for cancer information while those living in isolated rural areas had decreased odds. Understanding this relationship between place and health has implication for the allocation of resources and the design of interventions aimed at increasing information about cancer.

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