Information Seeking in Online Healthcare Communities: The Dual Influence From Social Self and Personal Self

The use of online healthcare communities to acquire health-related information and reduce uncertainty over illnesses is currently hampered by the lack of understanding of how health information-seeking behavior can be stimulated in such environments. By drawing upon the theoretical notion of social...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on engineering management 2017-11, Vol.64 (4), p.529-538
Main Authors: Liu, Na, Tong, Yu, Chan, Hock Chuan
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Communities
Diseases
Health care
Health information seeking
Illnesses
Information resources
Information retrieval
Information seeking behavior
Information systems
online healthcare community
Online services
perceived disease severity
Social groups
Social identity
social self and personal self
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Online services
perceived disease severity
Social groups
Social identity
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