Discipline of General Practice, Flinders University, South Australia.
Aust N Z J Public Health. 2010 Aug;34(4):422-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2010.00576.x.
To determine the proportion of South Australians seeking health information on the Internet and the relationship between searches for health information and self-reported health status.
Face-to-face interviews were conducted with 3,034 South Australians in 2008 using a clustered, multi-stage, self-weighting area sample.
Compared to 2001, rates of Internet usage were 48% higher and Internet health seeking increased by 57%. All participant categories, except those in school or younger than 25, showed an increase in use of the Internet and online health information seeking. In multiple logistic regression, poorer self-reported physical and mental health were associated with greater likelihood of Internet health information searches but also less use of the Internet.
South Australians' use of the Internet as a source of health information has risen between 2001 and 2008, even among groups that historically made little use of the Internet to search for health information. In Australia, health information on the Internet may be appropriately targeted towards groups who have previously been under-serviced in this medium.
确定在互联网上寻求健康信息的南澳大利亚人的比例，以及搜索健康信息与自我报告的健康状况之间的关系。
2008 年，使用聚类、多阶段、自我加权区域抽样方法，对 3034 名南澳大利亚人进行了面对面访谈。
与 2001 年相比，互联网使用率提高了 48%，互联网健康搜索增加了 57%。除了在校或 25 岁以下的人群外，所有参与者类别都表现出了对互联网和在线健康信息搜索的使用增加。在多因素逻辑回归中，自我报告的身体和精神健康状况较差与更有可能进行互联网健康信息搜索相关，但也与互联网的使用较少相关。
2001 年至 2008 年间，南澳大利亚人作为健康信息来源使用互联网的比例有所上升，即使是在那些历史上很少使用互联网搜索健康信息的群体中也是如此。在澳大利亚，互联网上的健康信息可能适合针对那些在这一媒介中服务不足的群体。
