Today, digitalization is affecting all areas of life, such as education or work. The competent
use of digital systems (esp. information and communication technologies [ICT]) has thus …

Online health information, as an emerging field in health communication research, has
attracted close attention from researchers. To identify major determinants of why individuals …

Corona pandemic has affected the whole world, and it is a highly researched area in
biological sciences. As the current pandemic has affected countries socially and …

Background First detected in Wuhan, China in December 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic
stretched the medical system in Wuhan and posed a challenge to the state's risk …

Abstract Background In 2007, Lambert and Loiselle conducted an extensive concept
analysis of the term health information seeking behaviour (HISB) to examine the concept's …

Background Empirical research has demonstrated that people frequently use social media
for gathering and sharing online health information. Health literacy, social media use, and …

The Internet increasingly has been recognized as an important medium with respect to
population health. However, little is known about the mechanisms that underlie the potential …

Numerous reasons regarding why people should seek health information exist, but empirical
evidence has indicated that factors that influence health information seeking (HIS) differ …

Patients' participation in healthcare requires comprehensive health knowledge and can
benefit from online health information seeking behaviours (O-HISB). The internet is a …

ABSTRACT The Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) is a well-established
US-based research program administered by the National Cancer Institute to track the public …