Nutrition especially for young adults is very crucial as they are in transitional phase from adolescent to adulthood. The aim of this survey was to explore the nutritional habits of university students especially those who use internet heavily. An Internet-based survey was performed among 361 young adults’ students at private medical university in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A self-administered que...

Mobile access to the Internet with handheld devices has been technically possible for quite a while and consumers are aware of the services but not so ready to use them. A central reason for the low usage is that user experience of the mobile internet is not yet sufficiently good. This paper analyses the mobile internet from the end-user perspective, identifying factors and solutions that would...

This article examines China's fast-growing Internet market from the perspective of its users in terms of adoption dynamics and usage patterns. Present users are an elite group whose profile is presented in the article. The Internet is used mostly for such applications as e-mail, browsing, research, and online chat. Internet telephony and online shopping are among the emerging trends. The Intern...

The Internet provides an opportunity for anyone to interact with whole of the world without any boundaries and barriers. Just think of friends and family members, to search any topic one can imagine, and to explore the world while sitting in the comfort of their own home or moving around by either desktops, laptops, or by smart phones. The popular media suggests that Internet usage decreases th...

BACKGROUND Excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) contributes to the development of obesity in mother and child. Internet-based interventions have the potential for delivering innovative and interactive options for prevention of excessive GWG to large numbers of people. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to create a novel measure of Internet-based intervention usage patterns and exami...

OBJECTIVE To determine differences in use of the Internet related to infertility between infertile women and men, whether they benefit or are negatively affected from information on the Internet, and share this information with health professional. METHODS This cross-sectional study was carried out with 285 infertile women and 158 men between December 2015 and February 2016. Data were collect...

purpose: this research aimed to survey the professional and non-professional information needs of the faculty members of ferdowsi university of mashhad. methodology: out of 664 faculty members in ferdowsi university of mashhad in the academic year of 2010-2011, 242 faculty members were selected by using stratified random sampling method. the data were collected by a researcher made questionnair...

OBJECTIVE Health information is one of the most frequently sought topics on the Internet. A review of the literature was carried out to determine the use of the Internet for health information by the patient and how this could affect the patient-health professional relationship. METHODS This study is a literature review, summarizing multiple empirical studies on a single subject and is not in...

INTRODUCTION Internet is important to university students, especially for medical students who use it to search for literature and relevant information. However, some of the users are experiencing a gradual loss of the ability to reduce the duration and frequency of their internet activities, despite the negative consequences. The literature on internet usage among Malaysian medical students is...

i This editorial aims (1) to define IT Professional Services (ITPS) as an increasingly important area of research endeavor, and (2) to consider the impact of the Internet on globalization and the ITPS sector. ITPS are IT-related services offered by an IT Professional Services Firm (ITPS Firm) to ITPS-using client organizations (ITPS Users). 1 ITPS are distinguished herein from IT Services (ITS)...