作者
Guendalina Graffigna, Serena Barello, Andrea Bonanomi, Giuseppe Riva
发表日期
2017/10/1
期刊
Patient education and counseling
卷号
100
期号
10
页码范围
1918-1927
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Objective
To identify the variables affecting patients’ online health information-seeking behaviours by examining the relationships between patient participation in their healthcare and online health information-seeking behaviours.
Methods
A cross-sectional survey of Italian chronic patients (N = 352) was conducted on patient’s online health information-seeking behaviours and patient participation-related variables. Structural equation modeling analysis was conducted to test the hypothesis.
Results
This study showed how the healthcare professionals’ ability to support chronic patients’ autonomy affect patients’ participation in their healthcare and patient’s online health information-seeking behaviours. However, results do not confirm that the frequency of patients’ online health-information seeking behavior has an impact on their adherence to medical prescriptions.
Conclusion
Assuming a psychosocial perspective, we …
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