This study investigated consumers' information-avoidance behavior in the context of a public
health emergency—the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Guided by the stimulus-organism …

Efforts aimed at understanding and changing health decisions and behaviour have relied on
theoretical frameworks or models comprised of social-cognitive determinants, such as …

This paper provides an overview of affect and health decision‐making research, with a focus
on identifying gaps, opportunities, and challenges to guide future research. We begin by …

Objective This systematic review (PROSPERO ID: CRD42022226375) aimed to identify the
eHealth literacy of men with prostate cancer, and their caregivers. Methods 8 databases …

Empirical evidence generated from theory-driven research addressing the relationship
between misinformation and vaccine information avoidance during a pandemic remains …

Aim: To determine whether socioeconomic status (SES; educational attainment and income)
explains the racial gap in cancer beliefs, cognitions, and emotions in a national sample of …

Researchers can obtain and use information from different channels in the network era, and
the explosive growth of information may lead to researchers' academic information …

Objectives: to evaluate the effects of music on the physiological stress and distress of cancer
patients being treated in a hospital. Methods: quasi-experimental study carried out with …

Purpose: To examine how cancer fatalism, stigma, and risk perception influence information
seeking and avoidance among Chinese adults in Hong Kong. Methods: We administered an …

Users' avoidance behavior of health information has received growing attention recently, but
research into users' avoidance behavior of diabetes information remains limited. This paper …