The 4th edition of this popular and well-cited text is now co-authored, and includes
significant changes from earlier texts. Presenting a comprehensive review of over a century …

Social media offer opportunities to both produce and consume content related to health
experiences. However, people's social media practices are likely to be influenced by a …

Objectives Healthcare costs and usage are rising. Evidence-based online health information
may reduce healthcare usage, but the evidence is scarce. The objective of this study was to …

This study investigated the factors that influence the perceived credibility of web sites
providing diet and nutrition information. Undergirded by the dual-processing models (ie …

Background To document the development and evaluation of the Quality of life Disease
Impact Scale (QDIS®), a measure that standardizes item content and scoring across chronic …

Our article aims to give an overview of the most mentioned smartphones' pregnancy-related
applications (Apps). A keywords string with selected keywords was entered both in a …

The Internet has become a major source of health and nutrition information. Little is known
about the type of consulted websites (institutional v. non-institutional) and the tendency to …

The majority of Internet users search for medical information online; however, many do not
have an adequate medical vocabulary. Users might have difficulties finding the most …

This study elucidates the experiential and motivational aspects of online health information
beyond the theoretically limited instrumental perspective that dominates the extant literature …

Das Leitbild von mündigen und kompetenten Patientinnen und Patienten stellt eine
gesundheitspolitische Zielsetzung dar und geht dabei mit einem hohen Autonomiegewinn …