The Internet as a Source of Health Information � the Results of a Polish Survey Study (Preprint)

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filip Raciborski ◽  
Anna Kłak ◽  
Bolesław Samoliński
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Internet Health Information ◽  
Internet Users

BACKGROUND The popularisation of Internet access has made it one of the basic sources of information (in this article, the term “Internet” is understood as different kinds of: websites, blogs, social networking sites, such as: Facebook, Twitter, etc.; text messages, including: email, skype, other instant messengers; discussion forums). This relates also to health and its correlates. OBJECTIVE The main objective of the study was to evaluate the scale of the phenomenon of using the Internet to look for health information in Poland. The aim of the study was also to evaluate the influence of information about health published in the network on the behaviour of internet users. METHODS A questionnaire-based survey (face-to-face interview) was carried out among a representative group of 1000 inhabitants of Poland aged 15 years and older. RESULTS Among the 1000 respondents surveyed in this study, 670 (67%) declared using the Internet, more than half of which (53.7%) reported seeking, among others, health information. The most commonly sought information included: diet and healthy eating (33.3%), a particular medication or dietary supplement (its effect, dosage, side effects) (28.9%), reviews of doctors (26.7%), and how other people coped with similar health problems (25.3%). More than 53% of Internet health information seekers were driven by curiosity, 46.4% by the ease and speed of finding information, 32.5% by the opportunity of finding a lot of independent reviews in one place, and 29.7% by no extra costs. CONCLUSIONS The importance of the Internet as a source of information about health is constantly increasing. Our study presents that in Poland, women, younger, well-educated, living in big cities, especially often look for health information on the web. However most people have limited trust in the data derived from that source. The influence of information about health published in the network on people's behaviour could be less than is commonly believed.

scholarly journals Examining How Internet Users Trust and Access Electronic Health Record Patient Portals: Survey Study

10.2196/28501 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. e28501
Author(s):  
Rong Yin ◽  
Katherine Law ◽  
David Neyens
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Electronic Health Record ◽  
Regression Model ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Logistic Regression Model ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Health Record ◽  
Patient Portals ◽  
Internet Users

Background Electronic health record (EHR) patient portals are designed to provide medical health records to patients. Using an EHR portal is expected to contribute to positive health outcomes and facilitate patient-provider communication. Objective Our objective was to examine how portal users report using their portals and the factors associated with obtaining health information from the internet. We also examined the desired portal features, factors impacting users’ trust in portals, and barriers to using portals. Methods An internet-based survey study was conducted using Amazon Mechanical Turk. All the participants were adults in the United States who used patient portals. The survey included questions about how the participants used their portals, what factors acted as barriers to using their portals, and how they used and how much they trusted other web-based health information sources as well as their portals. A logistic regression model was used to examine the factors influencing the participants’ trust in their portals. Additionally, the desired features and design characteristics were identified to support the design of future portals. Results A total of 394 participants completed the survey. Most of the participants were less than 35 years old (212/394, 53.8%), with 36.3% (143/394) aged between 35 and 55 years, and 9.9% (39/394) aged above 55 years. Women accounted for 48.5% (191/394) of the survey participants. More than 78% (307/394) of the participants reported using portals at least monthly. The most common portal features used were viewing lab results, making appointments, and paying bills. Participants reported some barriers to portal use including data security and limited access to the internet. The results of a logistic regression model used to predict the trust in their portals suggest that those comfortable using their portals (odds ratio [OR] 7.97, 95% CI 1.11-57.32) thought that their portals were easy to use (OR 7.4, 95% CI 1.12-48.84), and frequent internet users (OR 43.72, 95% CI 1.83-1046.43) were more likely to trust their portals. Participants reporting that the portals were important in managing their health (OR 28.13, 95% CI 5.31-148.85) and that their portals were a valuable part of their health care (OR 6.75, 95% CI 1.51-30.11) were also more likely to trust their portals. Conclusions There are several factors that impact the trust of EHR patient portal users in their portals. Designing easily usable portals and considering these factors may be the most effective approach to improving trust in patient portals. The desired features and usability of portals are critical factors that contribute to users’ trust in EHR portals.

scholarly journals Examining How Internet Users Trust and Access Electronic Health Record Patient Portals: Survey Study (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rong Yin ◽  
Katherine Law ◽  
David Neyens
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Electronic Health Record ◽  
Regression Model ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Logistic Regression Model ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Health Record ◽  
Patient Portals ◽  
Internet Users

BACKGROUND Electronic health record (EHR) patient portals are designed to provide medical health records to patients. Using an EHR portal is expected to contribute to positive health outcomes and facilitate patient-provider communication. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to examine how portal users report using their portals and the factors associated with obtaining health information from the internet. We also examined the desired portal features, factors impacting users’ trust in portals, and barriers to using portals. METHODS An internet-based survey study was conducted using Amazon Mechanical Turk. All the participants were adults in the United States who used patient portals. The survey included questions about how the participants used their portals, what factors acted as barriers to using their portals, and how they used and how much they trusted other web-based health information sources as well as their portals. A logistic regression model was used to examine the factors influencing the participants’ trust in their portals. Additionally, the desired features and design characteristics were identified to support the design of future portals. RESULTS A total of 394 participants completed the survey. Most of the participants were less than 35 years old (212/394, 53.8%), with 36.3% (143/394) aged between 35 and 55 years, and 9.9% (39/394) aged above 55 years. Women accounted for 48.5% (191/394) of the survey participants. More than 78% (307/394) of the participants reported using portals at least monthly. The most common portal features used were viewing lab results, making appointments, and paying bills. Participants reported some barriers to portal use including data security and limited access to the internet. The results of a logistic regression model used to predict the trust in their portals suggest that those comfortable using their portals (odds ratio [OR] 7.97, 95% CI 1.11-57.32) thought that their portals were easy to use (OR 7.4, 95% CI 1.12-48.84), and frequent internet users (OR 43.72, 95% CI 1.83-1046.43) were more likely to trust their portals. Participants reporting that the portals were important in managing their health (OR 28.13, 95% CI 5.31-148.85) and that their portals were a valuable part of their health care (OR 6.75, 95% CI 1.51-30.11) were also more likely to trust their portals. CONCLUSIONS There are several factors that impact the trust of EHR patient portal users in their portals. Designing easily usable portals and considering these factors may be the most effective approach to improving trust in patient portals. The desired features and usability of portals are critical factors that contribute to users’ trust in EHR portals. CLINICALTRIAL

scholarly journals The Effect Of Internet Use Habit Toward English Achievement: Survey Study In Smp Al Azhar 8 Bekasi

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 431
Author(s):  
Okfida Yani Syaf
Keyword(s):  
Internet Use ◽  
Survey Methods ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Media ◽  
International Language ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Class Viii ◽  
English Achievement

Students nowadays interact more frequently through the internet using English. As an international language, English is used by most internet users, both by application companies and social networks, as well as by users. Internet usage can be more easily obtained, especially in big cities. This affects the students’ way of thinking, learning and behaving because they can learn everything easily and quickly through online media available at the internet. The aim of this research is to show the effect of internet use habit on English achievement for class VIII students at SMPI Al Azhar 8 in Bekasi. This research based on survey methods using technical correlational analysis. While the data and information were obtained by a questionnaire. The sample is taken with purposive sampling technique that is 44 students. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that: There is a significant effect of the habit of interacting through the internet on the English achievement. This is evidenced by the acquisition of the results of the Sig. 0,000 <0,05dan t value = 4,365 which means there is a significant effect.

scholarly journals The role of social media in raising the awareness of youth about the popular movement A survey study of a sample of university students in Iraq

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
عبد الكريم الدبيسي ◽  
يسرى خالد إبراهيم
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Popular Movement ◽  
New Ideas

The digital environment has brought a lot of changes to the lives of societies and affected and changed their cultures, lifestyles, ways of thinking and interaction with the environment. The digital environment, with its rapid developments, has produced new ideas and behaviors on societies in general and Arab society was not far from these currents, after more than fifteen A year since the Internet entered Iraq, which is one of the most important manifestations of democracy, the latest radical changes in human relations. The information acquired by the human being today is one of the Internet and its culture dependent on it, and here began the study questionably head of that: What is the role of social networking sites in promoting young people's awareness of the importance of the popular movement? The research aims through adopting the survey method (Public Opinion Survey) to identify the most important political, economic and social dimensions of youth awareness that the Internet has brought to them by enhancing information and increasing confidence in the importance of change and persistence on the principle and the research sample is from university students and they are the motors of mobility in the Arab countries Study (Iraq )

Should You Believe Wikipedia?

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy S. Bruckman
Keyword(s):  
Online Collaboration ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The Way

As we interact online we are creating new kinds of knowledge and community. How are these communities formed? How do we know whether to trust them as sources of information? In other words, Should we believe Wikipedia? This book explores what community is, what knowledge is, how the internet facilitates new kinds of community, and how knowledge is shaped through online collaboration and conversation. Along the way the author tackles issues such as how we represent ourselves online and how this shapes how we interact, why there is so much bad behavior online and what we can do about it. And the most important question of all: What can we as internet users and designers do to help the internet to bring out the best in us all?

Revisiting the Issue of Trust in E-Health

2017 ◽  
pp. 241-259
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Sillence ◽  
Pam Briggs ◽  
Peter R. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Mobile Health ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Information Models ◽  
Health Advice ◽  
Mobile Health Applications ◽  
Health Field ◽  
Health Applications

As people continue to go online for their health information needs we revisit the issue of trust in relation to e-health. This chapter begins by briefly presenting an overview of e-health and describing current ways in which people are using the Internet for health advice and information. Models of trust are revisited and we then explore two emerging areas within the e-health field: peer resources and mobile health applications. Finally, we revisit and update our guidelines and point to further sources of information in this field.

Trust in Electronic Commerce

2010 ◽  
pp. 65-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongwei Du ◽  
Albert Lederer ◽  
Jiming Wu
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Past ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Market Research Company ◽  
Research Company ◽  
Online Shoppers

In the past two decades, electronic commerce has been growing rapidly due to the increasing popularization of personal computers, expanding penetration of broadband, and continuing development of the Internet and World Wide Web. According to eMarketer (2009), an e-business and online market research company, the total U.S. e-commerce sales (excluding travel) will grow from $127.7 billion in 2007 to $182.5 billion in 2010. The firm also estimates that the number of online shoppers in U.S. will increase from 131.1 million—nearly four-fifths of Internet users—by the year 2007, to 148.7 million by the year 2010. The growth of e-commerce relies not only on the great convenience of conducting transactions over the Internet but also on consumers’ willingness to trust an online merchant. This view is consistent with that advanced by Holsapple and Wu (2008): non-face-to-face, Internet-based transactions require an element of trust; in other words, trust is a foundation of e-commerce.

The Internet, Health Information, and Managing Health

2009 ◽  
pp. 297-316
Author(s):  
Christopher G. Reddick
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Health Information ◽  
Kaiser Family Foundation ◽  
Internet Health Information ◽  
Positive Feelings ◽  
Use Of The Internet

This article examines the use of the Internet for gathering health information by boomers and seniors. This study attempts to determine whether online health seekers (individuals that have Internet access and have searched for health information online) have changed their behaviors from the information they found online. Essentially, has online health information helped them to manage their health more effectively? This research analyzes the Kaiser Family Foundation e-Health and the Elderly public opinion dataset of access by boomers and seniors to online health information. The major results indicate that boomers marginally use online health information more than seniors for the management of their health. The most significant results indicated that boomers and seniors who are more aware and have positive feelings toward online health information would use it more to manage their health.

The Internet, Health Information, and Managing Health

2011 ◽  
pp. 1495-1513
Author(s):  
Christopher G. Reddick
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Health Information ◽  
Kaiser Family Foundation ◽  
Internet Health Information ◽  
Positive Feelings ◽  
Use Of The Internet

This article examines the use of the Internet for gathering health information by boomers and seniors. This study attempts to determine whether online health seekers (individuals that have Internet access and have searched for health information online) have changed their behaviors from the information they found online. Essentially, has online health information helped them to manage their health more effectively? This research analyzes the Kaiser Family Foundation e-Health and the Elderly public opinion dataset of access by boomers and seniors to online health information. The major results indicate that boomers marginally use online health information more than seniors for the management of their health. The most significant results indicated that boomers and seniors who are more aware and have positive feelings toward online health information would use it more to manage their health.

The Impact of Web 2.0 on the Doctor-Patient Relationship

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Lo ◽  
Lindsay Parham
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Electronic Medical Records ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Office Visits ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The Impact ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Stimulus Package

The hypothetical case of Mr. Jenkins illustrates innovations in digital health information technology that may profoundly change medical care and the doctorpatient relationship. The Internet contains enormous amounts of health information, and about threequarters of Internet users look online for health information. 1 Sometimes patients bring information they found on the Internet to their physicians. Physicians and patients can also now communicate by e-mail rather than by telephone or office visits, although these e-mail communications may not be integrated into the patient’s medical record. Furthermore, electronic medical records are slowly being adopted, particularly in hospitals and large integrated health systems. Funding to promote the adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) has been included in the 2009 federal stimulus package under the Obama Administration.

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