Health information needs of diabetics in social Q & A community
10.3969/j.issn.1671-3982.2014.12.010
- VernacularTitle:社会化问答社区中糖尿病健康信息的需求分析
- Author:
Biyi JIN
;
Xin XU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Diabetes;
Health information needs;
Yahoo Q and A;
Multi-dimensional analysis
- From:Chinese Journal of Medical Library and Information Science
2014;(12):37-42
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
A total of 587 keywords expressing the health information needs of diabetics were selected from diabetes-related 8762 questions covered in Yahoo Q and A, coded according to the cataloguing system and classification strategies of diabetes information, processed by text formatting, and clustered by multi-dimensional analysis, which showed that the most concerned health information in diabetics is the daily management, diagnosis and treatment of diabetes while rare attention is paid to its prevention.
