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Zhaohua Deng

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ID3926825
NAMEZhaohua Deng
GIVEN NAMESZhaohua
FAMILY NAMEDeng
SIGNATUREDENG Z
AFFILIATIONSHuazhong University of Science and Technology
ORCID0000-0002-7744-7818
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS22
TOTAL CITATIONS16
WORKS AS AUTHOR22
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1
  • The impact of intelligent decision support systems on social loafing in the workplace

    Open Access•Dan Song, Song Dan et al.•ARTICLE•Technological Forecasting and…•2026

  • How does AI-assisted diagnosis decision support systems influence doctors' coping styles and work outcomes? Bright and dark sides of AI in the workplace

    Open Access•Zhaohua Deng, Dan Song et al.•ARTICLE•Decision Support Systems•2025

  • The relationship between internet use and depressive symptoms among elderly in China

    Di Wang, Zhaohua Deng et al.•ARTICLE•Behaviour and Information…•2025

    With the rapid development of digital technology, the factors influencing the depressive symptoms of the elderly have undergone new changes. Most existing studies treat social support as a singular concept, without distinguishing between online and offline forms of support. This study aims to investigate the relationship between two distinct sources of offline social support – family and friends – and Internet use, as well as their combined impac…

  • Social benefits of online peer information exchange among doctors

    Guorui Fan, Zhaohua Deng et al.•ARTICLE•Behaviour and Information…•2025

    In online health communities based on doctor-doctor interactions, the sustained participation of doctors in information exchange within the community is not only crucial for the long-term development of online health communities but also contributes to enhancing the knowledge and professional capabilities of doctors across different regions. The purpose of this study is to explore the antecedents and consequences of information exchange behaviour…

  • Can anthropomorphism bring better persuasiveness? An empirical study on online health risk information

    Zhaohua Deng, Yuyao Tang et al.•ARTICLE•Internet Research•2025•References: 6

    Purpose Anthropomorphism presents a promising strategy for improving information presentation in online health communication. Although showing significant potential, its underlying mechanisms and boundary conditions remain underexplored and warrant further research. This study, therefore, aims to investigate how anthropomorphic cues in online health risk information influence information persuasiveness, specifically examining the underlying mecha…

  • Sharing information about medical crowdfunding projects on social networking sites

    Open Access•Zhaohua Deng, Jiaxin Xue et al.•ARTICLE•Information Technology and People•2025•References: 130

    Purpose Sharing project information is critical for the success of medical crowdfunding campaigns. However, few users share medical crowdfunding projects on their social networks, and the sharing behavior of medical crowdfunding projects on social networking sites has not been well studied. Therefore, this study explored the factors and potential mechanisms influencing users’ sharing behaviors on networking sites. Design/methodology/approach A re…

  • Effects of emotional expression and platform prompts on patient selection

    Open Access•Jiaxin Xue, Zhaohua Deng et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2025•References: 53

  • Becoming a cognitive miser? Antecedents and consequences of addictive ChatGPT use

    Open Access•Zihao Deng, Zongquan Deng et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2025•References: 95

  • What predicts patients’ satisfaction and continuous use of intelligent medical guidance? the moderating effect of consulting experience

    Zhaohua Deng, Ziang Tian et al.•ARTICLE•Behaviour and Information…•2024

    Background Patients’ continuous use of intelligent medical guidance is important for the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in hospitals.Problem/gap Previous studies mainly focus on the initial adoption while not examining why patients continually use AI-based medical services.Objective/aim We aim to explore the factors influencing patients’ continuous use of intelligent medical guidance based on the Stimuli-Organism-Response framework.M…

  • How the linguistic style of medical crowdfunding charitable appeal influences individuals' donations

    Open Access•Xing Zhang, Xinyue Wang et al.•ARTICLE•Technological Forecasting and…•2024

  • Self-disclosure, social support and postpartum depressive mood in online social networks

    Open Access•Xueqin Lei, Hong Wu et al.•ARTICLE•Information Technology and People•2023

    Purpose The purpose of this research is to investigate how postpartum mothers conduct self-disclosure on social media may obtain social support and therefore improve their depressive mood. Design/methodology/approach The authors extract variables of self-disclosure by manual coding postpartum mothers' 835 posts from a parenting social media in China. The ordinary least squares model and the binary logistic regression model are used to test the pr…

  • Patient distrust toward doctors in online health communities

    Open Access•Jiaxin Xue, Zhaohua Deng et al.•ARTICLE•Information Technology and People•2023

    Purpose This article aims to explore the factors influencing patients' distrust toward doctors in online health community. Design/methodology/approach This study leveraged the distrust construct model and socio-technical systems theory to establish a research model. The authors used the survey method to validate the research model by developing and distributing questionnaires to online health community users. 518 valid responses were collected. F…

  • Why online medical teams disband? The role of team diversity and leadership type

    Open Access•Jiaying Li, Hong Wu et al.•ARTICLE•Information Technology and People•2021

    Purpose Online medical teams (MTs), involving collaboration between remote healthcare workers, can provide comprehensive and rapid healthcare to patients. The growth in MTs is continuing, with popularity growing among doctors and patients, but some MTs disband, which could break the continuity of healthcare services provided. We aim to address this pressing issue by exploring the effects of team diversity and leadership types on team status (i.e.…

  • Retracted Article

    Open Access•Rongyang Ma, Hong Wu et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2021

    People show a discrepancy in the cognition toward various over-prevention behaviors. The findings may have implications for decision-makers to reduce the contradiction between the epidemic and economic revival via managing these behaviors

  • Seeking or contributing? Evidence of knowledge sharing behaviours in promoting patients’ perceived value of online health communities

    Open Access•Cui Guo, Zhen Zhang et al.•ARTICLE•Health Expectations•2020

    BACKGROUND: Health knowledge, as an important resource of online health communities (OHCs), attracts users to engage in OHCs and improve the traffics within OHCs, thereby promoting the development of OHCs. Seeking and contributing health knowledge are basic activities in OHCs and are helpful for users to solve their health-related problems, improve their health conditions and thus influence their evaluation of OHCs (ie perceived value of OHCs). H…

  • Effects of Health Information Dissemination on User Follows and Likes during Covid-19 Outbreak in China

    Open Access•Rongyang Ma, Zhaohua Deng et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2020

    Background : COVID-19 has greatly attacked China, spreading in the whole world. Articles were posted on many official WeChat accounts to transmit health information about this pandemic. The public also sought related information via social media more frequently. However, little is known about what kinds of information satisfy them better. This study aimed to explore the characteristics of health information dissemination that affected users' info…

  • Patient–Physician Interaction and Trust in Online Health Community

    Open Access•Yuxin Peng, Pingping Yin et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2019

    There are many studies on the influence of online health information on the doctor-patient relationship, whereas a little research has examined this relationship between health information online support from doctors and patient-physician interaction by quantitative empirical analysis. This study also explores the online guidance role of doctors and whether doctor-patient communication will affect the trust of doctors and patients. The practical …

  • Status Quo of Professional–Patient Relations in the Internet Era

    Open Access•Zekun Wang, Zhaohua Deng et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2019

    Background : Incidents of violence against medical staff have increased in intensity, showing the deteriorating relationship between doctors and patients in China over the past few years. In addition, professional-patient relations have been significantly affected in the Internet era in China, which has attracted great attention from many scholars. This study aims to analyze the research status of professional-patient relations in the Internet er…

  • Knowledge sharing motivations in online health communities

    Open Access•Xing Zhang, Shan Liu et al.•ARTICLE•Computers in Human Behavior•2017

  • Understanding consumer health information-seeking behavior from the perspective of the risk perception attitude framework and social support in mobile social media websites

    Open Access•Zhaohua Deng, Shan Liu•ARTICLE•International Journal of Medical…•2017

  • Collaborative planning in the new media age

    Open Access•Zhaohua Deng, Yanliu Lin et al.•ARTICLE•Cities•2015•Cited by: 16•References: 23

  • Comparison of the middle-aged and older users’ adoption of mobile health services in China

    Open Access•Zhaohua Deng, Xiuting Mo et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Medical…•2014

  • Collaborative planning in the new media age

    Open Access•Zhaohua Deng, Yanliu Lin et al.•ARTICLE•Cities•2015•Cited by: 16•References: 23

  • Comparison of the middle-aged and older users’ adoption of mobile health services in China

    Open Access•Zhaohua Deng, Xiuting Mo et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Medical…•2014

  • Collaborative planning in the new media age

    Open Access•Zhaohua Deng, Yanliu Lin et al.•ARTICLE•Cities•2015•Cited by: 16•References: 23

  • Knowledge sharing motivations in online health communities

    Open Access•Xing Zhang, Shan Liu et al.•ARTICLE•Computers in Human Behavior•2017

  • Understanding consumer health information-seeking behavior from the perspective of the risk perception attitude framework and social support in mobile social media websites

    Open Access•Zhaohua Deng, Shan Liu•ARTICLE•International Journal of Medical…•2017

  • Patient–Physician Interaction and Trust in Online Health Community

    Open Access•Yuxin Peng, Pingping Yin et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2019

    There are many studies on the influence of online health information on the doctor-patient relationship, whereas a little research has examined this relationship between health information online support from doctors and patient-physician interaction by quantitative empirical analysis. This study also explores the online guidance role of doctors and whether doctor-patient communication will affect the trust of doctors and patients. The practical …

  • Status Quo of Professional–Patient Relations in the Internet Era

    Open Access•Zekun Wang, Zhaohua Deng et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2019

    Background : Incidents of violence against medical staff have increased in intensity, showing the deteriorating relationship between doctors and patients in China over the past few years. In addition, professional-patient relations have been significantly affected in the Internet era in China, which has attracted great attention from many scholars. This study aims to analyze the research status of professional-patient relations in the Internet er…

  • Seeking or contributing? Evidence of knowledge sharing behaviours in promoting patients’ perceived value of online health communities

    Open Access•Cui Guo, Zhen Zhang et al.•ARTICLE•Health Expectations•2020

    BACKGROUND: Health knowledge, as an important resource of online health communities (OHCs), attracts users to engage in OHCs and improve the traffics within OHCs, thereby promoting the development of OHCs. Seeking and contributing health knowledge are basic activities in OHCs and are helpful for users to solve their health-related problems, improve their health conditions and thus influence their evaluation of OHCs (ie perceived value of OHCs). H…

  • Effects of Health Information Dissemination on User Follows and Likes during Covid-19 Outbreak in China

    Open Access•Rongyang Ma, Zhaohua Deng et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2020

    Background : COVID-19 has greatly attacked China, spreading in the whole world. Articles were posted on many official WeChat accounts to transmit health information about this pandemic. The public also sought related information via social media more frequently. However, little is known about what kinds of information satisfy them better. This study aimed to explore the characteristics of health information dissemination that affected users' info…

  • Why online medical teams disband? The role of team diversity and leadership type

    Open Access•Jiaying Li, Hong Wu et al.•ARTICLE•Information Technology and People•2021

    Purpose Online medical teams (MTs), involving collaboration between remote healthcare workers, can provide comprehensive and rapid healthcare to patients. The growth in MTs is continuing, with popularity growing among doctors and patients, but some MTs disband, which could break the continuity of healthcare services provided. We aim to address this pressing issue by exploring the effects of team diversity and leadership types on team status (i.e.…

  • Retracted Article

    Open Access•Rongyang Ma, Hong Wu et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2021

    People show a discrepancy in the cognition toward various over-prevention behaviors. The findings may have implications for decision-makers to reduce the contradiction between the epidemic and economic revival via managing these behaviors

  • Self-disclosure, social support and postpartum depressive mood in online social networks

    Open Access•Xueqin Lei, Hong Wu et al.•ARTICLE•Information Technology and People•2023

    Purpose The purpose of this research is to investigate how postpartum mothers conduct self-disclosure on social media may obtain social support and therefore improve their depressive mood. Design/methodology/approach The authors extract variables of self-disclosure by manual coding postpartum mothers' 835 posts from a parenting social media in China. The ordinary least squares model and the binary logistic regression model are used to test the pr…

  • Patient distrust toward doctors in online health communities

    Open Access•Jiaxin Xue, Zhaohua Deng et al.•ARTICLE•Information Technology and People•2023

    Purpose This article aims to explore the factors influencing patients' distrust toward doctors in online health community. Design/methodology/approach This study leveraged the distrust construct model and socio-technical systems theory to establish a research model. The authors used the survey method to validate the research model by developing and distributing questionnaires to online health community users. 518 valid responses were collected. F…

  • What predicts patients’ satisfaction and continuous use of intelligent medical guidance? the moderating effect of consulting experience

    Zhaohua Deng, Ziang Tian et al.•ARTICLE•Behaviour and Information…•2024

    Background Patients’ continuous use of intelligent medical guidance is important for the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in hospitals.Problem/gap Previous studies mainly focus on the initial adoption while not examining why patients continually use AI-based medical services.Objective/aim We aim to explore the factors influencing patients’ continuous use of intelligent medical guidance based on the Stimuli-Organism-Response framework.M…

  • How the linguistic style of medical crowdfunding charitable appeal influences individuals' donations

    Open Access•Xing Zhang, Xinyue Wang et al.•ARTICLE•Technological Forecasting and…•2024

  • How does AI-assisted diagnosis decision support systems influence doctors' coping styles and work outcomes? Bright and dark sides of AI in the workplace

    Open Access•Zhaohua Deng, Dan Song et al.•ARTICLE•Decision Support Systems•2025

  • The relationship between internet use and depressive symptoms among elderly in China

    Di Wang, Zhaohua Deng et al.•ARTICLE•Behaviour and Information…•2025

    With the rapid development of digital technology, the factors influencing the depressive symptoms of the elderly have undergone new changes. Most existing studies treat social support as a singular concept, without distinguishing between online and offline forms of support. This study aims to investigate the relationship between two distinct sources of offline social support – family and friends – and Internet use, as well as their combined impac…

  • Social benefits of online peer information exchange among doctors

    Guorui Fan, Zhaohua Deng et al.•ARTICLE•Behaviour and Information…•2025

    In online health communities based on doctor-doctor interactions, the sustained participation of doctors in information exchange within the community is not only crucial for the long-term development of online health communities but also contributes to enhancing the knowledge and professional capabilities of doctors across different regions. The purpose of this study is to explore the antecedents and consequences of information exchange behaviour…

  • Can anthropomorphism bring better persuasiveness? An empirical study on online health risk information

    Zhaohua Deng, Yuyao Tang et al.•ARTICLE•Internet Research•2025•References: 6

    Purpose Anthropomorphism presents a promising strategy for improving information presentation in online health communication. Although showing significant potential, its underlying mechanisms and boundary conditions remain underexplored and warrant further research. This study, therefore, aims to investigate how anthropomorphic cues in online health risk information influence information persuasiveness, specifically examining the underlying mecha…

  • Sharing information about medical crowdfunding projects on social networking sites

    Open Access•Zhaohua Deng, Jiaxin Xue et al.•ARTICLE•Information Technology and People•2025•References: 130

    Purpose Sharing project information is critical for the success of medical crowdfunding campaigns. However, few users share medical crowdfunding projects on their social networks, and the sharing behavior of medical crowdfunding projects on social networking sites has not been well studied. Therefore, this study explored the factors and potential mechanisms influencing users’ sharing behaviors on networking sites. Design/methodology/approach A re…

  • Effects of emotional expression and platform prompts on patient selection

    Open Access•Jiaxin Xue, Zhaohua Deng et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2025•References: 53

  • Becoming a cognitive miser? Antecedents and consequences of addictive ChatGPT use

    Open Access•Zihao Deng, Zongquan Deng et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2025•References: 95

  • The impact of intelligent decision support systems on social loafing in the workplace

    Open Access•Dan Song, Song Dan et al.•ARTICLE•Technological Forecasting and…•2026

Psychology (17 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Business (7 works) · China (6 works) · Health care (6 works) · Knowledge management (6 works) · Knowledge Management and Sharing (6 works)

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