1,750
Views
14
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Article

Understanding Information Seeking about the Health of Others: Applying the Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking to Proxy Online Health Information Seeking

ORCID Icon, &

References

  • Abrahamson, J. A., & Fisher, K. E. (2007). ‘What’s past is prologue’: Towards a general model of lay information mediary behaviour. Information Research, 12. Retrieved from http://www.informationr.net/ir/12-4/colis/colis15.html
  • Abrahamson, J. A., Fisher, K. E., Turner, A. G., Durrance, J. C., & Turner, T. C. (2008). Lay information mediary behavior uncovered: Exploring how nonprofessionals seek health information for themselves and others online. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 96(4), 310–323. doi:10.3163/1536-5050.96.4.006
  • Afifi, W. A., Morgan, S. E., Stephenson, M. T., Morse, C., Harrison, T., Reichert, T., & Long, S. D. (2006). Examining the decision to talk with family about organ donation: Applying the theory of motivated information management. Communication Monographs, 73(2), 188–215. doi:10.1080/03637750600690700
  • Alden, D. L., Friend, J., Lee, P. Y., Lee, Y. K., Trevena, L., Ng, C. J., … Limpongsanurak, S. (2018). Who decides me or we? Family involvement in medical decision making in Eastern and Western countries. Medical Decision Making, 38(1), 14–25. doi:10.1177/0272989X17715628
  • Bachmann, L. M., Mühleisen, A., Bock, A., Ter Riet, G., Held, U., & Kessels, A. G. H. (2008). Vignette studies of medical choice and judgement to study caregivers’ medical decision behaviour: Systematic review. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 8, 50–58. doi:10.1186/1471-2288-8-50
  • Basnyat, I., Nekmat, E., Jiang, S., & Lin, J. (2018). Applying the modified comprehensive model of information seeking to online health information seeking in the context of India. Journal of Health Communication, 23(6), 563–572. doi:10.1080/10810730.2018.1493058
  • Beckjord, E. B., Finney Rutten, L. J., Arora, N. K., Moser, R. P., & Hesse, B. W. (2008). Information processing and negative affect: Evidence from the 2003 Health Information National Trends Survey. Health Psychology, 27(2), 249. doi: 10.1037/0278-6133.27.2.249
  • Breitsohl, H. (2018). Beyond ANOVA. Organizational Research Methods, 12(1), 1–29. doi:10.1177/1094428118754988
  • Busch, M. A., Maske, U. E., Ryl, L., Schlack, R., & Hapke, U. (2013). Prävalenz von depressiver Symptomatik und diagnostizierter Depression bei Erwachsenen in Deutschland: Ergebnisse der Studie zur Gesundheit Erwachsener in Deutschland (DEGS1) [Prevalence of depressive symptoms and diagnosed depression among adults in Germany: Results of the German health interview and examination survey for adults (DEGS1)]. Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz, 56(5–6), 733–739. doi:10.1007/s00103-013-1688-3
  • Cao, W., Zhang, X., Xu, K., & Wang, Y. (2016). Modeling online health information-seeking behavior in China: The roles of source characteristics, reward assessment, and Internet self-efficacy. Health Communication, 31(9), 1105–1114. doi:10.1080/10410236.2015.1045236
  • Case, D. O., Andrews, J. E., Johnson, J. D., & Allard, S. L. (2005). Avoiding versus seeking: The relationship of information seeking to avoidance, blunting, coping, dissonance, and related concepts. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 93(3), 353–362.
  • Cioni, E., Lovari, A., & Tronu, P. (2018). We-caring: Searching for online health information by Italian families. Health Communication, 33(1), 68–77. doi:10.1080/10410236.2016.1242037
  • Cutrona, S. L., Mazor, K. M., Agunwamba, A. A., Valluri, S., Wilson, P. M., Sadasivam, R. S., & Finney Rutten, L. J. (2016). Health information brokers in the general population: An analysis of the health information national trends survey 2013-2014. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 18(6), e123. doi:10.2196/jmir.5447
  • Cutrona, S. L., Mazor, K. M., Vieux, S. N., Luger, T. M., Volkman, J. E., & Finney Rutten, L. J. (2015). Health information-seeking on behalf of others: Characteristics of “surrogate seekers”. Journal of Cancer Education, 30(1), 12–19. doi:10.1007/s13187-014-0701-3
  • DeLorme, D. E., Huh, J., & Reid, L. N. (2011). Source selection in prescription drug information seeking and influencing factors: Applying the comprehensive model of information seeking in an American context. Journal of Health Communication, 16(7), 766–787. doi:10.1080/10810730.2011.561914
  • Dormann, C. F., Elith, J., Bacher, S., Buchmann, C., Carl, G., Carré, G., … Lautenbach, S. (2013). Collinearity: A review of methods to deal with it and a simulation study evaluating their performance. Ecography, 36(1), 27–46. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07348.x
  • Egbert, N., Miraldi, L. B., & Murniadi, K. (2014). Friends don’t let friends suffer from depression: How threat, efficacy, knowledge, and empathy relate to college students’ intentions to intervene on behalf of a depressed friend. Journal of Health Communication, 19(4), 460–477. doi:10.1080/10810730.2013.821554
  • Evans, S. C., Roberts, M. C., Keeley, J. W., Blossom, J. B., Amaro, C. M., Garcia, A. M., … Reed, G. M. (2015). Vignette methodologies for studying clinicians’ decision-making: Validity, utility, and application in ICD-11 field studies. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 15(2), 160–170. doi:10.1016/j.ijchp.2014.12.001
  • Feng, B., & Magen, E. (2016). Relationship closeness predicts unsolicited advice giving in supportive interactions. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 33(6), 751–767. doi:10.1177/0265407515592262
  • Frank, F., Hasenmüller, M., Kaiser, M., Ries, Z., Bitzer, E., & Hölzel, L. (2015). Psychoeducation for relatives of persons with depressive disorders: A focus group study on information demands. Psychother Psych Med, 65(11), 426–433. doi:10.1055/s-0035-1555787
  • Gunn, K. L., Seers, K., Posner, N., & Coates, V. (2012). ‘somebody there to watch over you’: The role of the family in everyday and emergency diabetes care. Health & Social Care in the Community, 20(6), 591–598. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2524.2012.01073.x
  • Hartoonian, N., Ormseth, S. R., Hanson, E. R., Bantum, E. O., & Owen, J. E. (2014). Information-seeking in cancer survivors: Application of the comprehensive model of information seeking to HINTS 2007 data. Journal of Health Communication, 19(11), 1308–1325. doi:10.1080/10810730.2013.872730
  • Holt-Lunstead, J., & Uchino, B. N. (2015). Social support and health. In K. Glanz, B. K. Rimer, & K. Viswanath (Eds.), Health behavior and health education: Theory, research, and practice (5th ed., pp. 183–204). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
  • Hornburg, C., & Giering, A. (1996). Konzeptualisierung und Operationalisierung komplexer Konstrukte. Ein Leitfaden für die Marketingforschung: [Conzeptualization and operationalization of complex constructs: A guideline for marketing research]. Marketing ZfP, 18(1), 5–24. doi:10.15358/0344-1369-1996-1
  • Hovick, S. R. (2014). Understanding family health information seeking: A test of the theory of motivated information management. Journal of Health Communication, 19(1), 6–23. doi:10.1080/10810730.2013.778369
  • Johnson, J. D., & Meischke, H. (1993). A comprehensive model of cancer-related information seeking applied to magazines. Human Communication Research, 19(3), 343–367. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1993.tb00305.x
  • Kahlor, L. (2010). Prism: A planned risk information seeking model. Health Communication, 25(4), 345–356. doi:10.1080/10410231003775172
  • Kim, H., Paige Powell, M., & Bhuyan, S. S. (2017). Seeking medical information using mobile apps and the Internet: Are family caregivers different from the general public? Journal of Medical Systems, 41(3), 38. doi:10.1007/s10916-017-0684-9
  • Kinnane, N. A., & Milne, D. J. (2010). The role of the Internet in supporting and informing carers of people with cancer: A literature review. Supportive Care in Cancer, 18(9), 1123–1136. doi:10.1007/s00520-010-0863-4
  • Kirschning, S., Kardorff, E., & Merai, K. (2007). Internet use by the families of cancer patients—help for disease management? Journal of Public Health, 15(1), 23–28. doi:10.1007/s10389-006-0070-4
  • Kjos, A. L., Worley, M. M., & Schommer, J. C. (2011). Medication information seeking behavior in a social context: The role of lay and professional social network contacts. Innovations in Pharmacy, 4(63), 1–23. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11299/120061
  • Kosinski, M., Matz, S. C., Gosling, S. D., Popov, V., & Stillwell, D. (2015). Facebook as a research tool for the social sciences: Opportunities, challenges, ethical considerations, and practical guidelines. American Psychologist, 70(6), 543. doi:10.1037/a0039210
  • Krieger, J. L. (2014). Family communication about cancer treatment decision making: A description of the DECIDE typology. Annals of the International Communication Association, 38(1), 279–305. doi:10.1080/23808985.2014.11679165
  • Laidsaar-Powell, R., Butow, P., Bu, S., Charles, C., Gafni, A., Fisher, A., & Juraskova, I. (2016). Family involvement in cancer treatment decision-making: A qualitative study of patient, family, and clinician attitudes and experiences. Patient Education and Counseling, 99(7), 1146–1155. doi:10.1016/j.pec.2016.01.014
  • Leiner, D. J. (2016). Too fast, too straight, too weird: Post-hoc identification of meaningless data in Internet surveys. Retrieved from www.researchgate.net/publication/258997762
  • Lienemann, B. A., & Siegel, J. T. (2016). State psychological reactance to depression public service announcements among people with varying levels of depressive symptomatology. Health Communication, 31(1), 102–116. doi:10.1080/10410236.2014.940668
  • Maier, C., Laumer, S., Eckhardt, A., & Weitzel, T. (2015). Giving too much social support: Social overload on social networking sites. European Journal of Information Systems, 24(5), 447–464. doi:10.1057/ejis.2014.3
  • Oh, Y. ‑. S. (2015). Predictors of self and surrogate online health information seeking in family caregivers to cancer survivors. Social Work in Health Care, 54(10), 939–953. doi:10.1080/00981389.2015.1070780
  • Rains, S. A. (2007). Perceptions of traditional information sources and use of the world wide web to seek health information: Findings from the health information national trends survey. Journal of Health Communication, 12(7), 667–680. doi:10.1080/10810730701619992
  • Ramirez, A. S., Leyva, B., Graff, K., Nelson, D. E., & Huerta, E. (2015). Seeking information on behalf of others: An analysis of calls to a Spanish-language radio health program. Health Promotion Practice, 16(4), 501–509. doi:10.1177/1524839915574246
  • Reifegerste, D., & Bachl, M. (2019). Informationssuche als Beziehungstat. Der Zusammenhang zwischen relationalen Faktoren und Motiven der stellvertretenden Suche nach Gesundheitsinformationen: [Information seeking as an act of relationship]. Studies in Communication | Media, 8(3), 378–412. Retrieved from https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/2192-4007-2019-3/scm-studies-in-communication-and-media-jahrgang-8-2019-heft-3
  • Reifegerste, D., Bachl, M., & Baumann, E. (2017). Surrogate health information seeking in Europe: Influence of source type and social network variables. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 103, 7–14. doi:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2017.04.006
  • Richardson, K., & Barkham, M. (2017). Recovery from depression: A systematic review of perceptions and associated factors. Journal of Mental Health (Abingdon, England), 1–13. doi:10.1080/09638237.2017.1370629
  • Ruppel, E. K. (2016). Scanning health information sources: Applying and extending the comprehensive model of information seeking. Journal of Health Communication, 21(2), 208–216. doi:10.1080/10810730.2015.1058438
  • Sadasivam, R. S., Kinney, R. L., Lemon, S. C., Shimada, S. L., Allison, J. J., & Houston, T. K. (2013). Internet health information seeking is a team sport: Analysis of the pew Internet survey. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 82(3), 193–200. doi:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2012.09.008
  • Statista. (2017). Bildungsstand: Verteilung der Bevölkerung in Deutschland nach Altersgruppen und höchstem Schulabschluss: [Level of education: German population in age groups]. Retrieved from https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/197269/umfrage/allgemeiner-bildungsstand-der-bevoelkerung-in-deutschland-nach-dem-alter/
  • Thoits, P. A. (2011). Mechanisms linking social ties and support to physical and mental health. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 52(2), 145–161. doi:10.1177/0022146510395592
  • Van Stee, S. K., & Yang, Q. (2018). Online cancer information seeking: Applying and extending the comprehensive model of information seeking. Health Communication, 33(12), 1583–1592. doi:10.1080/10410236.2017.1384350
  • Weiber, R., & Mühlhaus, D. (2014). Strukturgleichungsmodellierung: [Structral equation modeling]. Berlin, Germany: Springer Gabler. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-35012-2
  • Weinstein, N. D. (1982). Unrealistic optimism about susceptibility to health problems. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 5(4), 441–460. doi:10.1007/BF00845372
  • WHO. (2011). The ICD-10 classification of mental and behavioural disorders: Clinical descriptions and diagnostic guidelines. Retrieved from https://www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/bluebook.pdf
  • Wilz, G. (2007). Role of spouses ‘overprotection on stroke patients ‘recovery. Psychology & Health, 1, 215.
  • Yuen, E. Y. N., Knight, T., Ricciardelli, L. A., & Burney, S. (2018). Health literacy of caregivers of adult care recipients: A systematic scoping review. Health & Social Care in the Community, 26(2), e191–e206. doi:10.1111/hsc.12368
  • Zhang, Y., Sun, Y., & Kim, Y. (2017). The influence of individual differences on consumer’s selection of online sources for health information. Computers in Human Behavior, 67, 303–312. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2016.11.008

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.