Borzekowski D L, Rickert V I
The Mount Sinai Hospital Adolescent Health Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2001 Jul;155(7):813-7. doi: 10.1001/archpedi.155.7.813.
To examine adolescents' use of and attitudes toward accessing health information through the Internet.
Cross-sectional, school-based survey.
A socioeconomically and ethnically diverse sample of 412 suburban New York 10th graders (mean [SD] age, 15.8 [0.68] years).
Accessing the Internet for health information.
Half (49%) of the sampled adolescents had used the Internet to get health information. Topics most often explored through the Internet included sexually transmitted diseases; diet, fitness, and exercise; and sexual behaviors. Adolescents found Internet information to be of high value (using a composite gauging worth, trustworthiness, use, and relevance), with no significant differences related to sex, ethnicity, or mother's education. When considering 11 separate health topics, girls found it more valuable to have information on birth control, diet and nutrition, exercise, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and dating violence. Only for alternative medicine were there differences by ethnicity, and there were no differences based on mother's education for the value of having specific health information available through the Internet.
For adolescents, the Internet is an accessed and valued information source on a range of sensitive health issues.
研究青少年通过互联网获取健康信息的使用情况和态度。
横断面、基于学校的调查。
纽约郊区412名十年级学生组成的社会经济和种族多样化样本（平均[标准差]年龄为15.8[0.68]岁）。
通过互联网获取健康信息。
抽样青少年中有一半（49%）使用互联网获取健康信息。通过互联网最常探索的主题包括性传播疾病、饮食、健身和运动以及性行为。青少年认为互联网信息具有很高的价值（使用综合衡量价值、可信度、用途和相关性），在性别、种族或母亲教育程度方面没有显著差异。在考虑11个不同的健康主题时，女孩们发现有关节育、饮食和营养、运动、身体虐待、性虐待和约会暴力的信息更有价值。仅在替代医学方面存在种族差异，对于通过互联网获取特定健康信息的价值，在母亲教育程度方面没有差异。
对于青少年来说，互联网是获取一系列敏感健康问题信息的重要且有价值的来源。
