Examining the dimensions of cancer-related information seeking and scanning Behavior
Examining the dimensions of cancer-related information seeking and scanning Behavior
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DOI：
10.1080/10410230701454189
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发表时间：
2007-01-01
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Schwartz, J. Sanford
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作者：
Niederdeppe, Jeff;Hornik, Robert C.;Schwartz, J. Sanford
近几十年来，人们越来越重视患者作为健康信息的积极消费者。关于癌症相关信息的文献集中在主动和有目的的信息寻求上，但大量接触癌症相关信息的目的可能较少（称为信息扫描）。本文介绍了一项深入访谈研究的结果，该研究在癌症预防和筛查决策的背景下，对生活在大都市地区的不同样本人群进行了信息寻求和扫描行为的研究。结果表明，信息扫描是相当普遍的，特别是与筛选测试有关的信息。信息寻求是罕见的，主要发生在那些谁也是信息扫描器。受访者报告说，使用更多的各种来源的信息扫描比信息寻求，但参与者更有可能报告说，他们的决定是通过寻求比通过扫描收到的信息的影响。这些发现为人们如何驾驭媒体环境提供了新的线索，并建议未来的研究应该研究获得癌症相关信息的目的性较低的预测因素和影响。
Recent decades have witnessed a growing emphasis on patients as active consumers of health information. The literature about cancer-related information focuses on active and purposeful information seeking, but a great deal of exposure to cancer-relevant information may happen less purposively (termed information scanning). This article presents results from an in-depth interview study that examined information seeking and scanning behavior in the context of cancer prevention and screening decisions among a diverse sample of people living in a major metropolitan area. Results suggest that information scanning is quite common, particularly for information related to screening tests. Information seeking is rarer and occurs primarily among those who also are information scanners. Respondents report using a greater variety of sources for information scanning than for information seeking, but participants were much more likely to report that their decisions were influenced by information received through seeking than through scanning. These findings shed new light on how individuals navigate the media environment and suggest future research should examine predictors and effects of less purposeful efforts to obtain cancer-related information.