ArticleJournal of general internal medicine2008
A new age for cancer information seeking: are we better off now?
Article in Journal of general internal medicine, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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Who cites it
6 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- Development of an eHealth tool for cancer patients: monitoring psycho-emotional aspects with the Family Resilience (FaRe) Questionnaire.Ecancermedicalscience · 2018Review
- Geographical comparisons of information and support needs of Australian women following the primary treatment of breast cancer: a 10-year replication study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2015Article
- Internet interventions for improving psychological well-being in psycho-oncology: review and recommendations.Psycho-oncology · 2012Review
- Health information seekers in Japan: a snapshot of needs, behavior, and recognition in 2008.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2012Article
- Informational and decisional empowerment in online health support communities: initial psychometric validation of the Cyber Info-Decisional Empowerment Scale (CIDES) and preliminary data from administration of the scale.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2011Article
- Clarification of issues raised in the editorial "A new age for cancer information seeking: are we better off now?".Journal of general internal medicine · 2008Article
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1 author at 1 institution in 2 countries.
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Abstract
A decade after the dawn of the Internet Age, are people who seek health information better off than they used to be? The current study by Arora and colleagues examines a small slice of the massive Health Information National Trends Survey dataset and attempts to understand the experiences of those US adults who have sought cancer information at any point in their lives from any source. One third reported that the information they encountered was hard to understand, and one half questioned the quality of the information they found. Several research questions regarding how individuals successfully find information on the Internet remain to be answered.
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