School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing Normal University.
Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Western Carolina University.
Health Commun. 2019 Dec;34(14):1824-1832. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2018.1536950. Epub 2018 Oct 26.
This study investigated the determinants of health information sharing behaviors of Chinese older adults living in rural areas. Drawing upon a widely used categorization of social support, we tested the effect of social embeddedness and perceived social support on health information sharing behavior, which is conceptualized as a type of enacted social support-informational support. Data were collected between June and August 2014 from 387 older Chinese adults aged 60-79 years in Linxi County of northern China. The results of hierarchical ordinary least squares regression analyses revealed that Chinese older adults' perceived social support from families and social embeddedness were positively associated with health information sharing behavior, net of the influence of social demographic controls and health information seeking and scanning behaviors. Furthermore, health information sharing behavior was also found to be positively associated with health information seeking and scanning behaviors. Overall, this study enriched the existing literature on health information sharing behavior by taking a social support perspective. A number of practical implications were also discussed.
本研究旨在探讨农村地区中国老年人健康信息分享行为的决定因素。本研究借鉴了一种广泛使用的社会支持分类方法，检验了社会嵌入性和感知社会支持对健康信息分享行为的影响，后者被概念化为一种实施的社会支持——信息支持。本研究的数据收集于 2014 年 6 月至 8 月，对象为中国北部临西县 387 名 60-79 岁的老年人。分层普通最小二乘法回归分析的结果表明，中国老年人感知到的来自家庭和社会嵌入的社会支持与健康信息分享行为呈正相关，不受社会人口统计学控制和健康信息搜索与扫描行为的影响。此外，健康信息分享行为也与健康信息搜索和扫描行为呈正相关。总的来说，本研究从社会支持的角度丰富了健康信息分享行为的现有文献，同时也讨论了一些实际意义。
