Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Psychiatr Serv. 2009 Sep;60(9):1265-8. doi: 10.1176/ps.2009.60.9.1265.
This study examined how people with serious mental illness access and use media to receive health information.
One hundred people with serious mental illness were interviewed regarding their media use, with a focus on how they get their health information.
Among these participants, 91% had a television (M+/-SD=5.7+/-4.6 hours per day), and 74% indicated it was a primary health information source. One third of the sample had used the Internet. Of these participants, about half (53%) had gone online for health information. Younger participants and those with more education were significantly more likely to use the Internet. Among Internet nonusers, there was still interest in finding health information online; however, expense, lack of computer skills or knowledge, and difficulties with typing and reading prevented doing so.
Although this sample used television more often than the Internet as a resource, there appears to be interest among persons with serious mental illness in using the Internet as a source of health information and support.
本研究考察了严重精神疾病患者如何获取和使用媒体来获取健康信息。
对 100 名严重精神疾病患者进行了媒体使用情况的访谈，重点关注他们获取健康信息的方式。
在这些参与者中，91%的人有电视（M+/-SD=5.7+/-4.6 小时/天），74%的人表示电视是主要的健康信息来源。三分之一的样本使用过互联网。在这些参与者中，大约一半（53%）曾上网获取健康信息。年轻参与者和受教育程度较高的参与者更有可能使用互联网。在互联网非使用者中，仍然有兴趣在网上查找健康信息；然而，费用、缺乏计算机技能或知识以及打字和阅读困难阻碍了这一行为。
尽管该样本将电视作为资源的使用频率高于互联网，但严重精神疾病患者似乎有兴趣将互联网作为健康信息和支持的来源。
