Health information overload among health consumers: A sco** review

I Khaleel, BC Wimmer, GM Peterson, STR Zaidi… - Patient education and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective To examine and identify the scope of research addressing health information
overload in consumers. Methods In accordance with a published protocol, six electronic …

Social media in health communication: A literature review of information quality

E Afful-Dadzie, A Afful-Dadzie… - Health Information …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Social media is used in health communication by individuals, health
professionals, disease centres and other health regulatory bodies. However, varying …

Infodemic, institutional trust, and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: a cross-national survey

X Chen, W Lee, F Lin - … journal of environmental research and public …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by a massive infodemic. Yet limited
studies have quantified the impact of the COVID-19 infodemic on vaccine hesitancy. This …

Does too much news on social media discourage news seeking? Mediating role of news efficacy between perceived news overload and news avoidance on social …

CS Park - Social Media+ Society, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Drawing upon Bandura's self-efficacy theory, this study conceptualizes “social media news
efficacy” and examines how news efficacy connects perceived news overload on social …

[HTML][HTML] Associations of health literacy, social media use, and self-efficacy with health information–seeking intentions among social media users in China: cross …

Z Niu, J Willoughby, R Zhou - Journal of medical Internet research, 2021 - jmir.org
Background Empirical research has demonstrated that people frequently use social media
for gathering and sharing online health information. Health literacy, social media use, and …

When do people verify and share health rumors on social media? The effects of message importance, health anxiety, and health literacy

HJ Oh, H Lee - Journal of health communication, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This study explores the roles of perceived message importance, health anxiety, and health
literacy in the relationship between message factors (message label and message valence) …

The differential effects of trusting beliefs on social media users' willingness to adopt and share health knowledge

XL **, M Yin, Z Zhou, X Yu - Information Processing & Management, 2021 - Elsevier
The outline for the “Healthy China 2030” emphasizes social media use in health knowledge
communication. Health knowledge communication enabled by social media relies heavily …

Perceived news overload and its cognitive and attitudinal consequences for news usage in South Korea

H Song, J Jung, Y Kim - Journalism & Mass Communication …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This study focuses on the ironic situation in which news is more available than ever but
people are becoming overwhelmed and thus avoid it. A theoretical model is suggested to …

Promoting users' intention to share online health articles on social media: The role of confirmation bias

H Zhao, S Fu, X Chen - Information Processing & Management, 2020 - Elsevier
Nowadays, it is a common practice for healthcare professionals to spread medical
knowledge by posting health articles on social media. However, promoting users' intention …

Pathway linking internet health information seeking to better health: a moderated mediation study

S Jiang, RL Street - Health Communication, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The Internet increasingly has been recognized as an important medium with respect to
population health. However, little is known about the mechanisms that underlie the potential …