Understanding Health Information Seeking: A Test of the Risk Perception Attitude Framework
Understanding Health Information Seeking: A Test of the Risk Perception Attitude Framework
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DOI：
10.1080/10810730.2015.1018634
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发表时间：
2015-12-02
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Bell, Robert A.
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作者：
Grasso, Katherine L.;Bell, Robert A.
作者使用基于扩展平行过程模型的风险感知态度框架来预测人们寻求健康信息的意图。在一项在线调查中，从众包网站招募了689名参与者，询问了他们对高血压、高胆固醇血症、酒精依赖和糖尿病四种情况的预期健康信息寻求、感知风险和疗效。每个参与者在每个场景中被分类为反应性（高风险，高疗效），逃避性（高风险，低疗效），主动性（低风险，高疗效）或漠不关心（低风险，低疗效）。正如预测的那样，反应型个体比回避型个体更有可能寻找信息，但这只是在四种情况中的三种情况下。正如预期的那样，在任何情况下，主动和冷漠的个体寻求健康信息的可能性没有差异。风险和疗效虽然是预期健康信息寻求的重要预测指标，但仍有许多差异无法解释。通过对不符合病例中信息寻求和不寻求原因的分析表明，应该调查更广泛的影响健康信息寻求的因素，包括好奇心、先验知识、社会期望和情境规范。
The authors used the Risk Perception Attitude framework, which is grounded in the Extended Parallel Process Model, to predict people's intentions to seek health information. In an online survey, 689 participants recruited from a crowdsource website were queried about their anticipated health information seeking, perceived risk, and efficacy in response to four scenarios pertaining to hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, alcohol dependence, and diabetes. Each participant was categorized for each scenario as responsive (higher risk, higher efficacy), avoidant (higher risk, lower efficacy), proactive (lower risk, higher efficacy), or indifferent (lower risk, lower efficacy). As predicted, responsive individuals were more likely to seek information than avoidant individuals, but only in three of the four scenarios. Also as expected, there was no difference between proactive and indifferent individuals' likelihood of seeking health information for any scenario. Risk and efficacy, while significant predictors of anticipated health information seeking, left much of the variance unexplained. An analysis of the reasons for information seeking and nonseeking among nonconforming cases suggests that a wider range of influences on health information seeking should be investigated, including curiosity, prior knowledge, social expectations, and situational norms.