Online health information behaviors of community residents in Baiyun District, Guangzhou, China
10.3969/j.issn.1671-3982.2016.03.011
- VernacularTitle:广州市白云区社区居民网络健康信息行为现状调查
- Author:
Xuefang HE
;
Yanan YU
;
Pan HUAI
;
Ping GU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Online health information;
Health information behavior;
Community residents;
Medical treatment on Internet;
Information literacy
- From:Chinese Journal of Medical Library and Information Science
2016;25(3):59-63
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To investigate the access to online health information in community residents.Methods The online health information behaviors in residents of 10 communities in Baiyun District, Guangzhou, China, were in-vestigated with questionnaires and analyzed by SPSS 19 .0 .Results Of the community residents included in this in-vestigation, 25%were positive in access to online health information on general gate website and commercial health information service website, 74.34%showed their concern for food safety information, 52.30%focused their con-cern on disease symptom information, and 66.79%were unable to differentiate true information from false informa-tion.Conclusion The community residents have a low positivity and lack of awareness in access to online health in-formation.It is thus pressingly necessary to build the government-dominated online health information platform, and improve the commercial network model and the ability of community residents to differentiate true information from false information.
