Health Information Seeking Behaviors of Ethnically Diverse Adolescents
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Health information-seeking behaviors, health indicators, and health risks.
OBJECTIVES We examined how different types of health information-seeking behaviors (HISBs)-no use, illness information only, wellness information only, and illness and wellness information combined-are associated with health risk factors and health indicators to determine possible motives for health information seeking. METHODS A sample of 559 Seattle-Tacoma area adults completed an Internet-...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1557-1912,1557-1920
DOI: 10.1007/s10903-013-9803-y