Paper Info
Title
The General Public'S Use Of (And Attitudes Towards) Interactive, Personal Digital Health Information And Advisory Services
Abstract
Examines statistically the public's use and attitudes towards interactive and personal health services via an online questionnaire survey and enhances these data with an expert assessment of a number of consumer health sites and their services. Over a period of three weeks more than 1,300 people responded to an online questionnaire produced by The British Life and Internet Project. Of the respondents, 81 per cent were British. The likely potential uptake figure for support group participation among Internet health users is about 20 per cent while around 11 to 13 per cent will go online to describe a medical condition. Those in poor heath were approximately ten to 13 times more likely to have participated in an online support group. Those aged over 65 were four times as likely to e-mail their doctor. More positive health outcomes were associated with those respondents that participated in online support groups and the least number of health outcomes were associated with those people that maintained e-mail contact with a doctor or surgery.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1108/00220410410534167
JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION
Keywords
DocType
Volume
health services, information, Internet, electronic mail
Journal
60
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
0022-0418
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.68
2
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Paul Huntington160.68
David Nicholas2977138.73
Janet Homewood3111.59
Panayiota Polydoratou45210.37
Barrie Gunter516723.98
Chris Russell6416.21
Richard Withey7151.60