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Needing and seeking health information often is a longitudinal everyday life information behavior that involves the use of technology. However, no reviews of consumers' longitudinal health information needs (HIN) and health information-seeking (HIS) behavior have been conducted. We performed a scoping review to address this gap. Specifically, we surveyed the characteristics, timeline construction and research findings of studies investigating consumers' longitudinal HIN and HIS. Initial searches were conducted in November 2019 and updated in July 2022. A total of 128 papers were identified, reviewed and analyzed using content and thematic analyses. Results showed that most papers were quantitative, conducted in the USA, related to cancer, conducted during the diagnosis and treatment phases, and followed preset time intervals. Findings concerning the development patterns of consumers' HIN degrees and HIS effort were mixed (i.e. increasing, decreasing or being consistent over time). They seemed to be shaped by factors such as health conditions, data collection methods and the length of data collection. Consumers' use of sources changes depending on health status and source accessibility; their medical terminologies seem to expand over time. HIS has a strong emotional dimension which may lead to adaptive or maladaptive information behaviors (e.g. information avoidance). Overall, the results revealed a lack of understanding of HIN and HIS from a longitudinal perspective, particularly along health condition progression and coping trajectories. There is also a lack of understanding of the role of technologies in the longitudinal HIS process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Emergency physicians on the frontlines of the COVID‐19 pandemic are first‐hand witnesses to the direct impact of health misinformation and disinformation on individual patients, communities, and public health at large. Therefore, emergency physicians naturally have a crucial role to play to steward factual information and combat health misinformation. Unfortunately, most physicians lack the communications and social media training needed to address health misinformation with patients and online, highlighting an obvious gap in emergency medicine training. We convened an expert panel of academic emergency physicians who have taught and conducted research about health misinformation at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA, on May 13, 2022. The panelists represented geographically diverse institutions including Baystate Medical Center/Tufts University, Boston Medical Center, Northwestern University, Rush Medical College, and Stanford University. In this article, we describe the scope and impact of health misinformation, introduce methods for addressing misinformation in the clinical environment and online, acknowledge the challenges of tackling misinformation from our physician colleagues, demonstrate strategies for debunking and prebunking, and highlight implications for education and training in emergency medicine. Finally, we discuss several actionable interventions that define the role of the emergency physician in the management of health misinformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study tests an extended cognitive mediation model (CMM) by adding cancer worry and risk perceptions as outcomes of elaboration and predictors of intention to uptake human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination among young Chinese women. It also investigates if news attention on newspaper, television, and the Internet are indirectly associated with the intention to uptake HPV vaccination through these mediators. Results of structural equation modeling based on survey data with 399 female university students indicate partial support to the extended CMM. Results show that news attention on the Internet is positively associated with elaboration, while news attention on newspaper and television had no association with it. Moreover, elaboration is positively associated with cancer worry but not with risk perception. Next, cancer worry and risk perception were associated with intention to uptake HPV vaccination. Finally, mediation analysis results showed that news attention on the Internet is indirectly associated with intention to uptake HPV vaccination through elaboration and cancer worry. Theoretical and practical implications of the study are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: This study examines how seniors in Singapore use mobile devices for healthcare purposes.Methods: Semi-structured interviews with 35 mobile phone users aged between 58-82 years old.Results: Seniors regard mobile phones as important personal devices for socialization, security, and emergency purposes. Most of the seniors consider mobile telephony (voice calls and text messaging) as an accessible platform to access healthcare. Perceived usefulness, ease of use, compatibility, technology anxiety, financial cost, and self-efficacy were identified as factors affecting the use of mHealth among seniors. Although a few adopt mHealth applications and mobile Internet for health-information seeking, some younger seniors show enthusiastic attitudes toward its adoption. Additionally, some seniors also have technology anxiety and resistance toward using mHealth applications.Conclusion: Seniors use mobile phones for healthcare purposes in their daily life, and its use involves several facilitators and barriers. Interpersonal training is likely to reduce their anxiety and increase mHealth literacy and adoption. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper highlights the important role of health literacy during the COVID-19 pandemic, including how information professionals can help equip Filipinos with sufficient health literacy to protect them from similar global health crises in the future. While so much needs to be done to improve health literacy education, the author advocates for a greater research culture among information professionals (and students) so that we can generate locally made insights to influence health literacy policy, education, and research in the Philippines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aside from personal beliefs, the decision to consume genetically modified foods (GMFs) can be explained by individuals' elaboration of information gained from the media and interpersonal discussion. Based on this idea, we incorporated communication factors (i.e., media attention, interpersonal discussion, and elaboration) with factors derived from the theory of planned behavior (i.e., attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control) to predict intention to consume GMFs in China. Results of the hierarchical regression analysis based on Web survey data from 467 university students showed that attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control were positively related to intention to consume GMFs. Although all communication factors did not predict intention to consume GMFs, we found that elaboration moderated the relationship between media attention and interpersonal discussion to intention to consume GMFs. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• There was a downward trend among those taking and passing the NLE between 2010 and 2016. • HEIs' location, size, type, year of establishment, and student–faculty ratio were associated with NLE passing rate. • Government agencies should take measures to improve most HEIs' NLE performance in the Philippines. The quality of undergraduate nursing programs offered by higher education institutions (HEIs) in the Philippines is usually evaluated using Nurse Licensure Examination (NLE) results. To describe NLE trends in 2010 to 2016, compare low- and high-performing HEIs, and examine the association of HEIs' characteristics with NLE passing rate. NLE and HEI data were collected from two Philippine government agencies. Descriptive statistics were used to present NLE trends, while multiple linear regression was used to determine the association of HEI characteristics with NLE passing rate. There was a downward trend for NLE takers and passers from 2010 to 2016. Regression results showed that location, size, type, year of establishment, and student–faculty ratio were associated with NLE passing rate. HEIs should consider decreasing their student–faculty ratio to improve NLE performance. Relevant government agencies should take measures to improve most HEIs' NLE performance in the Philippines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: This study reports the development and psychometric evaluation of the Smartphone for Clinical Work Scale (SCWS) to measure nurses' use of smartphones for work purposes.Methods: Items were developed based on literature review and a preliminary study. After expert consultations and pilot testing, a 20-item scale was administered in January-June 2017 to 517 staff nurses from 19 tertiary-level general hospitals in Metro Manila, Philippines. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were used to evaluate construct validity. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test the predictive validity of SCWS on perceived work productivity.Results: EFA results show that 15 out of 20 items loaded on five factors: communication with clinicians via call and text, communication with doctors via instant messaging, information seeking, communication with nurses via instant messaging, and communication with patients via call and text. CFA results suggest that the five factors that form SCWS have adequate fit to the data, thus supporting construct validity. SEM results suggest predictive validity since SCWS was positively associated with perceived work productivity.Conclusions: The 15-item SCWS showed satisfactory psychometric properties for use in future studies. These studies can focus on identifying factors associated with nurses' use of smartphones for work purposes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As Southeast Asia has experienced haze crises in recent years, encouraging Singaporeans to take preventive measures against negative health outcomes during haze is a growing concern. This study examines how communication factors (i.e., attention to traditional media and new media, interpersonal discussion, and knowledge) can inform Singaporeans about haze and influence their risk perceptions and intentions to undertake self-protective measures. The web survey of 410 respondents shows that attention to traditional media, attention to new media, interpersonal discussion, knowledge, and risk perception are positively associated with intention to take preventive measures. However, only interpersonal discussion is related to risk perception. Theoretical as well as practical implications of the findings are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The widespread adoption of mobile phones has increased the potential of mHealth to improve health communication and health outcomes because these devices could serve as a ubiquitous and affordable means to disseminate health information to large populations. Given that mHealth apps offer free or limited trials as part of promotional strategies, potential users’ trialability is a critical step of the preadoption process. Drawing from Rogers’ diffusion of innovation theory, this study examines the relationships of adopters’ perceived characteristics of mHealth apps (i.e., relative advantage, complexity, compatibility, and observability) with their trialability. It further investigates how the perceived control of mobile devices and trialability of mHealth apps influence two dimensions of mHealth literacy, namely seeking and appraisal of health information. This web survey recruited 295 young mHealth app users from a Singaporean university. Results of partial least squares regression show that the observability of mHealth apps is the only factor positively related to mHealth trialability. Perceived control of mobile devices and trialability of mHealth apps are positively associated with seeking and appraisal of health information. Practical and theoretical implications to mHealth are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The annual Southeast Asian haze pollution raises public health concerns in this region. Based on a modified extended parallel process model, this study examines efficacy (self-efficacy and response efficacy) and perceived threat (susceptibility and severity) and incorporates new constructs of media trust and affective attitude. Results from a Web survey of 410 undergraduate students in Singapore show that response efficacy to seek haze-related information mediates the association between perceived self-efficacy and intention to take protective measures during haze. Moreover, self-efficacy is negatively associated with affective attitude (e.g., fear and worry) toward haze-related health problems. Next, perceived severity and perceived susceptibility are positively associated with response efficacy and affective attitude. Affective attitude toward haze is a stronger predictor than response efficacy for behavioral intention. Finally, trust in new media is positively associated with young Singaporeans’ affective attitude, which positively affects their behavioral intention to take protective measures. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Increasing adoption of location-based services and smartphones leads to optimistic forecasts for location-based mobile advertising (LBA).This study investigates the development of emerging LBA in Singapore by examining stakeholders’ perspectives and shaping forces in the socio-technical subsystems (i.e., technology, market/industry, and government/regulation). In addition to document analysis, it conducts in-depth interviews with key industry players in the LBA value chain, policy-makers, and smartphone consumers in order to identify drivers and challenges in this nascent mobile business. The socio-technical analyses show that LBA in Singapore is technology-ready with government support and industry pull, while conservative advertisers, negative consumer attitudes, and insufficient regulations hinder LBA's diffusion. The results reveal that LBA at an early adopter stage in Singapore has a relatively convergent and competitive value chain, as telcos play a crucial part in creating and distributing LBA services. With a newly launched Personal Data Protection Act, smartphone consumers still show concerns about personal privacy, data security, and intrusive spam. Technical implementation and LBA effectiveness are major inhibitors for advertisers' adoption. The Singapore case offers market and regulatory implications for other mobile-advanced countries to develop mobile marketing, location-based services, and LBA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eHealth literacy is an emerging concept of scholarly interest that is seen as the extension of health literacy in the digital era. This study proposes a new definition of eHealth literacy to facilitate future research on this growing scholarly area. Based on the analysis of 14 definitions of eHealth, health and digital literacy, this study defines eHealth literacy as the interplay of individual and social factors in the use of digital technologies to search, acquire, comprehend, appraise, communicate and apply health information in all contexts of healthcare with the goal of maintaining or improving the quality of life throughout the lifespan. Researchers should now focus on developing operational measures to develop a valid and reliable means to measure eHealth literacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, social networking sites have provided an accessible means to convey social support to grievers who mourn for the dead. To explore how Twitter is used to convey social support after a non-celebrity's death, this study conducted a content analysis of 1,557 Twitter posts bearing the hashtag #Fallen44-a reference to the death of 44 elite Philippine policemen during a terrorist manhunt. Using a hybrid coding approach, the findings show that Twitter users conveyed social support by sending informational (56.28%) and emotional (39.76%) support messages. Informational support was mostly expressed by posting or sharing pictures and news articles relevant to the Fallen44, while emotional support was mostly conveyed by paying tribute, showing sympathy, and offering prayers for them. Moreover, a small proportion (3.96%) of tweets did not convey social support but reflected humor or anger or were spam messages. This study is one of the first to provide empirical support for the use of Twitter to convey social support after a non-celebrity's death in an Asian setting. Practical and theoretical implications for online social support are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aims: To determine which stressor has the highest occurrence and what stressors are related to nurse outcomes, such as job satisfaction, perceived quality of care, and turnover intention. Background: Numerous stressors have been identified in nursing practice, but it is unclear if specific stressors are related to nurse outcomes. Design The study used a cross‐sectional and descriptive‐correlational research design. Methods: In July and August 2017, survey data were collected from 427 staff nurses employed in a large tertiary‐level private hospital in Metro Manila, Philippines. The Nursing Stress Scale was used to measure stress frequency. Structural equation modelling was used to determine the relationship of stressors and nurse outcomes. Results: Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses indicate nine Nursing Stress Scale factors. Workload is the most frequent stressor. Moreover, workload was negatively related to job satisfaction and perceived quality of care. Workload and conflict with nurses were positively related to turnover intention. Conclusions: The Nursing Stress Scale has a different factor structure based on a survey of nurses in the Philippines. Only workload and conflict with nurses were related to specific nurse outcomes. Nurse managers should identify and mitigate stressors experienced by nurses since these can lead to turnover and poor quality of care. SUMMARY STATEMENT: What is already known about this topic? Nursing is one of the most stressful health care occupations.Stress is related to job satisfaction, perceived quality of care, and turnover intention.The Nursing Stress Scale is a widely used tool to measure stress in nursing practice. What this paper adds? Stress due to too many non‐bedside nursing tasks is the highest reported item level stressor.Among several stressors, only workload was related to job satisfaction, perceived quality of care, and turnover intention.Instead of the original seven‐factor model, results of factor analyses suggest that the Nursing Stress Scale fits a nine‐factor model. The implications of this paper: Nurse managers should mitigate stressors experienced by nurses to improve job satisfaction.One way to reduce nurse turnover could be to reduce nurses' workload.The quality of care provided to patients by nurses may improve by reducing workload. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]