O'Grady Laura A, Witteman Holly, Wathen C Nadine
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2008 Dec 16;8:58. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-58.
First generation Internet technologies such as mailing lists or newsgroups afforded unprecedented levels of information exchange within a variety of interest groups, including those who seek health information. With emergence of the World Wide Web many communication applications were ported to web browsers. One of the driving factors in this phenomenon has been the exchange of experiential or anecdotal knowledge that patients share online, and there is emerging evidence that participation in these forums may be having an impact on people's health decision making. Theoretical frameworks supporting this form of information seeking and learning have yet to be proposed.
In this article, we propose an adaptation of Kolb's experiential learning theory to begin to formulate an experiential health information processing model that may contribute to our understanding of online health information seeking behaviour in this context.
An experiential health information processing model is proposed that can be used as a research framework. Future research directions include investigating the utility of this model in the online health information seeking context, studying the impact of collaborating in these online environments on patient decision making and on health outcomes are provided.
诸如邮件列表或新闻组等第一代互联网技术，在包括寻求健康信息者在内的各种兴趣群体中实现了前所未有的信息交流水平。随着万维网的出现，许多通信应用程序被移植到了网页浏览器上。这一现象的驱动因素之一是患者在网上分享的经验性或轶事性知识的交流，并且有新证据表明参与这些论坛可能会对人们的健康决策产生影响。然而，支持这种信息寻求和学习形式的理论框架尚未被提出。
在本文中，我们提出对科尔布的经验学习理论进行改编，以开始构建一个经验性健康信息处理模型，该模型可能有助于我们在这种背景下理解在线健康信息寻求行为。
提出了一个经验性健康信息处理模型，可将其用作研究框架。提供了未来的研究方向，包括研究该模型在在线健康信息寻求背景下的效用，研究在这些在线环境中协作对患者决策和健康结果的影响。
