Paper Info
Title
Factors motivating, demotivating, or impeding information seeking and use by people with type 2 diabetes: A call to work toward preventing, identifying, and addressing incognizance.
Abstract
Type 2 diabetes has grown increasingly prevalent over recent decades, now affecting nearly 400 million people worldwide; however, nearly half of these individuals have no idea they have it. Consumer health information behavior CHIB, which encompasses people's health-related information needs as well as the ways in which they interact or do not interact with health-related information, plays an important role in people's ability to prevent, cope with, and successfully manage a serious chronic disease across time. In this mixed-method longitudinal study, the CHIB of 34 people with type 2 diabetes is explored with the goal of identifying the factors that motivate, demotivate, or impede their diabetes-related information seeking and use. The findings reveal that while these processes can be motivated by many different factors and can lead to important benefits, there are significant barriers such as \"incognizance,\" defined herein as having an information need that one is not aware of that may demotivate or impede their information seeking and use. The implications of these findings are discussed, focusing on how we might work toward preventing, identifying, and addressing incognizance among this population, ensuring they have the information they need when it can be of the most use to them.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1002/asi.23652
JASIST
Field
DocType
Volume
Population,Information behavior,Longitudinal study,Internet privacy,Information needs,Information retrieval,Computer science,Information seeking,Knowledge management,Chronic disease,Consumer health
Journal
68
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
2330-1635
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
5
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Beth St. Jean111611.59