The prevalence of Internet and social media based medication information seeking behavior in Saudi Arabia

S Bahkali, S Alfurih, M Aldremly… - … the Applications and …, 2016 - ebooks.iospress.nl
The internet has become an important resource to help people search for online medication
information. This study aims to report the prevalence and profile of Saudi online medication …

Exploring the impact of information seeking behaviors of online health consumers in the Arab World

S Bahkali, R Almaiman, M El-Awad… - … the Applications and …, 2016 - ebooks.iospress.nl
In the Arab world, increasing numbers of people are seeking online health related
information for diagnoses, medicine, fitness, pharmaceutical drugs, and smoking cessation …

Online health information-seeking behaviour: an empirical study of managerial-level employees in Sri Lanka

NP Gunasekara, WMN Fernando… - International Journal of …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose Over the past few years, the internet has expanded rapidly, and it has been
considered a systematic way that consumers use to retrieve health-related information …

Community pharmacists' perspectives of online health-related information: A qualitative insight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

O See Wan, MA Hassali… - Health Information …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: The Internet is a resource used by health professionals as well as the public to
access health information. Within this context, little is reported on community …

[HTML][HTML] The use of internet and social media for health information and its consequences among the population in Saudi Arabia

SA AlMuammar, AS Noorsaeed, RA Alafif, YF Kamal… - Cureus, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: The Internet is being increasingly used in our lives. Along with Internet use,
social media sites are especially popular and are used by many people on a daily basis …

Survey of internet use as a source of health-related information in Qassim Province, Saudi Arabia

IA Alwehaibi, AA Almeman - Tropical Journal of Pharmaceutical Research, 2014 - ajol.info
Purpose: To estimate the proportion of patients in Qassim Province, Saudi Arabia, who use
the Internet to search for health-related information, determine barriers to Internet use, and …

[HTML][HTML] The use of social media among Saudi residents for medicines related information

MS Alhaddad - Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal, 2018 - Elsevier
This study aimed to measure the use of social media applications for health information
among residents in Saudi Arabia. A cross sectional study was adopted in this study between …

A study of user profile and their attitudes about social media promotion of prescription drugs in Eastern India

S Mukherjee, V Pandey, J Kumar… - Available at SSRN …, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract Social Media Promotion (SMP) of prescription drugs can be helpful, as it provides
us emotional support, it helps marginalized groups of patients to reach out to their physician …

[HTML][HTML] Association of online health information–seeking behavior and self-care activities among type 2 diabetic patients in Saudi Arabia

A Jamal, SA Khan, A AlHumud, A Al-Duhyyim… - Journal of medical …, 2015 - jmir.org
Background: Health information obtained from the Internet has an impact on patient health
care outcomes. There is a growing concern over the quality of online health information …

[HTML][HTML] Internet use for searching information on medicines and disease: a community pharmacy–based survey among adult pharmacy customers

S Lombardo, M Cosentino - Interactive journal of medical research, 2016 - i-jmr.org
Background: The Internet is increasingly used as a source of health-related information, and
a vast majority of Internet users are performing health-related searches in the United States …