P021 Do adolescents want separate information leaflets?

What information do consumers want and need?

This paper reviews information from surveys and focus group studies about how consumers define high-quality care and the types of information they want when making decisions about which health plan to join. The authors also interviewed consumer advocacy groups and persons responsible for disseminating health plan information to Medicare enrollees in various types of managed care plans to learn ...

What do adolescents want in order to become more active?

BACKGROUND Few large studies have examined adolescents' views about increasing their physical activity (PA) to inform PA promotion. We assessed adolescent preference for activity type, co-participants, timing and location of PA promotion and examined patterns in their views by population subgroup. METHODS Participants (n=457) (Mean ± SD age: 14.3 ± 0.3 years; 45.2% male) responded to question...

Social comparison and patient information: what do cancer patients want?

The present study focuses on social comparison processes among cancer patients. The sample consisted of 60 (ex-) cancer patients who participated in a course "coping with cancer". This study examined several aspects of social comparison: the need for comparison, the preferred direction of comparison and the influence of mode (information or contact seeking) and dimension (illness severity or co...

How do adolescents access health information?

What do You Want to do Today? - Relevant-Information Bookkeeping in Goal-Oriented Behaviour

We extend existing models and methods for the informational treatment of the perception-action loop to the case of goaloriented behaviour and introduce the notion of relevant goal information as the amount of information an agent necessarily has to maintain about its goal. Starting from the hypothesis that organisms use information economically, we study the structure of this information and ho...