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Online health information-seeking behaviors and skills of Chinese college students.

Dangui ZhangWeixin ZhanChunwen ZhengJinsheng ZhangAnqi HuangShuan HuWilliam Ba-Thein
Published in: BMC public health (2021)
This study reveals Chinese college students' heavy reliance on OHI to manage their own and others' health without sufficient knowledge/skills to identify misinformation and disinformation. The apparent risky information-seeking behaviors of Chinese college students warrant the provision of regulated, accurate, and actionable health information; assurance of cybersecurity; and health information literacy promotion in colleges by concerned authorities.
Keyphrases
  • health information
  • social media
  • healthcare
  • mental health
  • palliative care
  • medical students
  • risk assessment
  • mass spectrometry
  • climate change
  • quality control