ArticleJMIR medical informatics2021
Users' Willingness to Share Health Information in a Social Question-and-Answer Community: Cross-sectional Survey in China.
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- Illness Experiences in Young and Middle-Aged Patients With Dilated Cardiomyopathy on Chinese Social Media: Qualitative Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Factors influencing health information acquisition behavior from a social capital theory perspective: a study of Zhihu users.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- The effect of health consciousness on older adults' health information-sharing intention: the mediating role of self-efficacy and social norms.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Health data sharing attitudes towards primary and secondary use of data: a systematic review.EClinicalMedicine · 2024Article
- Associations Between Patient-Reported Outcome Measures of Physical and Psychological Functioning and Willingness to Share Social Media Data for Research Among Adolescents With a Chronic Rheumatic Disease: Cross-Sectional Survey.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundSocial question-and-answer communities play an increasingly important role in the dissemination of health information. It is important to identify influencing factors of user willingness to share health information to improve public health literacy.
objectiveThis study explored influencing factors of social question-and-answer community users who share health information to provide reference for the construction of a high-quality health information sharing community.
methodsA cross-sectional study was conducted through snowball sampling of 185 participants who are Zhihu users in China. A structural equation analysis was used to verify the interaction and influence of the strength between variables in the model. Hierarchical regression was also used to test the mediating effect in the model.
resultsAltruism (β=.264, P<.001), intrinsic reward (β=.260, P=.03), self-efficacy (β=.468, P<.001), and community influence (β=.277, P=.003) had a positive effect on users' willingness to share health information (WSHI). By contrast, extrinsic reward (β=-0.351, P<.001) had a negative effect. Self-efficacy also had a mediating effect (β=.147, 29.15%, 0.147/0.505) between community influence and WSHI.
conclusionsThe findings suggest that users' WSHI is influenced by many factors including altruism, self-efficacy, community influence, and intrinsic reward. Improving the social atmosphere of the platform is an effective method of encouraging users to share health information.
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