Table 4 The types of health information-seeking behaviour
Types | Example | Studies |
|---|---|---|
Passive attention | "When I first found out about Crohn's disease, I seen the commercial on TV, and it was talking about the symptoms as far as having it. I'm like, dang, I go through the same thing. " [56] | |
Passive search | "Information can be obtained through regular behaviours such as reading newspapers or magazines." [17] | |
Active search | "On the stoma sites, a lot of people do Vlogs, so I’ve watched them before. There’s some good ones that are helpful. " [47] | [16,17,18, 38, 40, 42,43,44, 47, 50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58, 60, 62,63,64, 67, 68, 70, 71, 75, 78, 81,82,83,84,85,86, 88] |
Ongoing search | "I am on Facebook daily, so every now and then I see an article about IBD that catches my eyes, I’ll click on it and read it" [62] | [17, 38, 40, 42, 44, 50, 54, 56, 59, 62, 68, 71, 78, 81, 85] |
Avoid seeking | "I had joined some patient groups before, and I was so shocked by the information in them that now I just don't want to know, I reject all of them." [38] |