From: Social capital and health information seeking in China
Variables | n = 3090 |
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Social-demographic | |
Age (M/SD) | 35.13/11.54 |
Gender (%) | |
 Female | 61.1% |
 Male | 38.9% |
Education (%) | |
 Primary school and below | 2.2% |
 Junior middle school | 15.8% |
 High school | 27.1% |
 Junior college | 26.1% |
 Bachelor degree | 23.1% |
 Bachelor degree above | 5.7% |
Marital status (%) | |
 Currently married | 70.6% |
 Unmarried | 29.4% |
Employment (%) | |
 Employed | 74.8% |
 Unemployed | 25.2% |
Personal income (%) | |
 Less than ¥ 1,500 | 16.5% |
 ¥ 1,500–2,499 | 13% |
 ¥ 2,500–4,999 | 40.9% |
 ¥ 5,000–9,999 | 23.8% |
 ¥ 10,000 and above | 5.7% |
Chronic diseases (%) | |
 Have | 17.2% |
 Do not have | 82.8% |
Residence (%) | |
 Rural | 50.8% |
 Urban | 49.2% |
Covariates of health information-seeking behavior | |
Organizations providing health information (%) | |
  Yes | 17.6% |
  No | 82.4% |
Health information discussion frequency (M/SD) | 2.52/.83 |
Trusts in health information (M/SD) | |
 Internet | 2.76/.77 |
 Traditional media | 2.91/.88 |
 Interpersonal channels | 3.86/.77 |
 Official institutes | 3.23/.94 |
 Information organizations | 2.62/.79 |
Social Capital | |
Structure | |
Bonding network (M/SD) | 3.20/1.17 |
 Bridging network (%) | |
  None | 2.8% |
  1–4 persons | 12.0% |
  5–9 persons | 37.5% |
  10–19 persons | 26.7% |
  20–49 persons | 16.2% |
  50–99 persons | 4.3% |
  100 or more persons | 0.6% |
Organization memberships (%) | |
 None | 68.3% |
 A single organization | 16.9% |
 Two or more organizations | 14.7% |
Cognitive | |
Emotional support (%) | |
  Yes | 85.6% |
  No | 14.4% |
Information support (%) | |
  Yes | 73.5% |
  No | 26.5% |
Health information-seeking behavior | |
Health information seeking (%) | |
  Yes | 31.3% |
  No | 68.7% |
Cancer information seeking (%) | |
  Yes | 16.9% |
  No | 83.1% |
Health information seeking from the internet (M/SD) | 2.12/.70 |
Health information seeking from traditional media (M/SD) | 2.01/.76 |