Consumers Evaluation of Chinese Online Health Information: A Survey in China
To investigate the way to judge, indicators of trust, and difficulties to access health information on the Internet in Chinese between people with medical and non-medical background Methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study was employed.Chi-square tests or Fishers exact tests were performed to examine the significant difference between medical and non-medical background groups.Results: Authoritative information was favored in both groups (medical57.5 %, non medical45.6 %);but people without medical background depend more on sensation or high repeatability than medical professionals (p=0.002) when evaluating.Title was the most concerned factor of trust in both groups.In addition, many medical professionals often refer to information release time (43.3%),and sometimes, they refer to real named author (52.7 %) and references (47.3 %).Respectively, 65.5 % in medical group and 73.5 % in non-medical group could accept health information on the Internet.The key barrier of accessing online health information was unable to tell the truth and false.Discussion: Most of consumers could not really identify qualified health information on the Internet.Barriers block consumers to access qualified information.Conclusion: Consumers should be trained to seek credible information.And further study of evaluation methods of health information in Chinese should be performed.
online health information evaluation trust barrier
L(U) Yalan HOU Xiaorong HUANG Cheng HU Hong ZHAO Wenlong
Department of Health Information Management and Decision Making College of Medical Informatics,Chong Information Department Library, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
国际会议
武汉
英文
185-189
2016-10-21（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）