Abstract The growth of the Internet has provided users unlimited access to an abundance information, including health information. is typically first source searched by U.S. adults (18 years and older) when seeking Factors such as age anxiety are associated with online information (OHIS). Older (65 increasing their use OHIS, although OHIS decreases age. Importantly, can lead improved outcomes f...

Methods of obtaining informed consent have evolved differently in Western countries without substantive information on the impact of these different practices on the patients. A randomised study was performed to compare two commonly adopted methods of seeking consent to randomised treatment: an individual approach at the discretion of each doctor and a uniform policy of total disclosure of all ...

As research questions and topics in information studies evolve, there is a continual need to seek out innovative research methods to help us investigate and address these questions. This paper presents an emerging research method, the creation and analysis of information horizon maps, and discusses the use of such maps in an ongoing research study. Sonnenwald’s (1) framework for human informati...

Health Information Retrieval is the application of Information Retrieval concepts and techniques to the healthcare domain. Contextual Information Retrieval is a subarea of IR that incorporates context features in the search process towards its improvement. Both areas have been gaining interest from the research community but it’s not frequent to see the combination of both. The Ph.D. research p...

Introduction. This study investigated the information seeking behaviour and needs of parents of paediatric patients and their motives for seeking Internet-based information. Method. A questionnaire survey of 121 parents was conducted in a paediatric clinic of a Greek university hospital. Analysis. The data were analysed using SPSS; descriptive statistics were used to summarise the data and non-...

Users as actors in interactive information retrieval (IIR) are seen in the contexts of their perceived work tasks and information seeking behaviour. The paper models IIR processes by demonstrating a variety of approaches, ranging from Ingwersen ́s cognitive communication model for IR interaction, over Saraceveic ́ stratified model which includes a typology of relevance conceptions, to Borlund ́s m...

The article explains why the concept of the user in Library and Information Science (LIS) user studies and information seeking behavior is theoretically inadequate and it proposes a reconceptualization of subjects, objects, and their relations according to a model of ‘double mediation.’ Formal causation (affordances) is suggested as a substitute for mechanistic causation. The notion of ‘affecti...