Differences in Perceptions of Health Information Between the Public and Health Care Professionals: Nonprobability Sampling Questionnaire Survey

In the new media age, the public searches for information both online and offline. Many studies have examined how the public reads and understands this information but very few investigate how people assess the quality of journalistic articles as opposed to information generated by health profession...

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Published in:Journal of medical Internet research 2019-07, Vol.21 (7), p.e14105-e14105
Main Authors: Gesser-Edelsburg, Anat, Abed Elhadi Shahbari, Nour, Cohen, Ricky, Mir Halavi, Adva, Hijazi, Rana, Paz-Yaakobovitch, Galit, Birman, Yael
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Consumer health information
Decision making
False information
Female
General public
Health care
Health education
Health information
Health literacy
Health Personnel - standards
Health services
Health status
Humans
Information sources
Internet
Internet access
Journalism
Journalists
Male
Medical Informatics - methods
Medical personnel
Original Paper
Patients
Perception
Physicians
Polls & surveys
Professionals
Public health
Public Health - methods
Questionnaires
Sampling
Social media
Social networks
Surveys
Surveys and Questionnaires
Websites
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Summary:In the new media age, the public searches for information both online and offline. Many studies have examined how the public reads and understands this information but very few investigate how people assess the quality of journalistic articles as opposed to information generated by health professionals. The aim of this study was to examine how public health care workers (HCWs) and the general public seek, read, and understand health information and to investigate the criteria by which they assess the quality of journalistic articles. A Web-based nonprobability sampling questionnaire survey was distributed to Israeli HCWs and members of the public via 3 social media outlets: Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram. A total of 979 respondents participated in the online survey via the Qualtrics XM platform. The findings indicate that HCWs find academic articles more reliable than do members of the general public (44.4% and 28.4%, respectively, P
ISSN:1438-8871
1439-4456
1438-8871
DOI:10.2196/14105