He Zhe, Barrett Laura A, Rizvi Rubina, Tang Xiang, Payrovnaziri Seyedeh Neelufar, Zhang Rui
School of Information, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
Institute for Health Informatics and Department of Pharmaceutical Care & Health Systems, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
AMIA Jt Summits Transl Sci Proc. 2020 May 30;2020:231-240. eCollection 2020.
Complementary alternative medicine, especially dietary supplements (DS), has gained increasing popularity for weight loss due to its availability without prescription, price, and ease of use. Besides weight loss, there are various perceived, potential benefits linked to DS use. However, health consumers with limited health literacy may not adequately know the benefits and risk of overdose for DS. In this project, we aim to gain a better understanding of the use of DS products among obese people as well as the perceived benefits of these products. We identified obese adults after combining the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data collected from 2003 to 2014. We found that there is a knowledge gap between the reported benefits of major DS by obese adults and the existing DS knowledge base and label database. This gap may inform the design of patient education material on DS usage in the future.
补充替代医学，尤其是膳食补充剂（DS），因其无需处方即可获得、价格低廉且使用方便，在减肥方面越来越受欢迎。除了减肥之外，使用DS还有各种被认为的潜在益处。然而，健康素养有限的健康消费者可能并不充分了解DS的益处和过量服用的风险。在这个项目中，我们旨在更好地了解肥胖人群中DS产品的使用情况以及这些产品被感知到的益处。我们通过整合2003年至2014年收集的国家健康与营养检查调查数据，确定了肥胖成年人。我们发现，肥胖成年人报告的主要DS益处与现有的DS知识库和标签数据库之间存在知识差距。这一差距可能为未来关于DS使用的患者教育材料的设计提供参考。
