Impact of Communicating With Doctors Via Social Media on Consumers’ E-Health Literacy and Healthy Behaviors in China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13776396 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tailai Wu (0000-0002-2025-3123, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China), Zhifei He (0000-0001-8503-1612, Southwest University of Political Science & Law, corresponding author), Donglan Zhang (0000-0001-5225-4721, University of Georgia, Athens, USA) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Pages | 46958020971188-46958020971188 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | INQUIRY The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0046-9580 • E-ISSN: 1945-7243 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0046958020971188 |
| PMID | 33238788 |
| OpenAlex | W3107796818 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 27 |
This study investigated the relationship between consumers' communication with doctors and their e-Health literacy and healthy behaviors based on the theory of reasoned action. Five communication activities were identified: following doctors' social media accounts, reading doctors' posts, responding to doctors' posts, favoring (clicking "like" of) doctors' posts, and recommending doctors to other patients. E-Health literacy and healthy behaviors were measured based on instruments used in previous literature. Survey method was used to collect data and a hierarchical regression analysis was used to analyze the relationship between communication activities and consumers' e-Health literacy and healthy behaviors. We found that following doctors' accounts ( r = 0.127, P r = 0.141, P r = 0.133, P r = 0.091, P r = 0.072, P r = 0.129, P r = 0.220, P < .001) were significantly associated with healthy behaviors. Our study demonstrated that the social network communication between doctors and consumers could be cost-effective in improving intermediary consumers' health outcomes. To be specific, following doctors' posts, responding to doctors' posts, favoring doctors' posts, and recommending doctors to others were positively associated with consumers' e-Health literacy and healthy behaviors. The results suggested that leveraging information technology could be an important tool to health policymakers and health providers in order to improve outcomes
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |