College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Department of Communication, Cornell University , Ithaca, New York, USA.
J Health Commun. 2020 Jun 2;25(6):490-500. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2020.1806414. Epub 2020 Aug 23.
This study examined similarities and differences in health information-seeking behaviors between American and Chinese people using data from the 2017 U.S. Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) and the 2017 China HINTS. It is one of the first studies that use comparable samples and survey instruments to make direct comparisons of the two populations' health information-seeking behaviors. Results showed that Americans (including different racial/ethnic groups in the U.S.) were more likely to actively seek health information than Chinese people. Americans were also more likely to use mediated communication as their primary sources of health information while Chinese people favored interpersonal sources. Chinese people reported lower quality of doctor-patient communication than their American counterparts. These differences between the two countries highlight the importance of using different information sources to reach specific populations, and the need to develop tailored public health intervention programs in different cultures.
本研究使用 2017 年美国健康信息国家趋势调查（HINTS）和 2017 年中国 HINTS 的数据，考察了美国人和中国人在健康信息搜索行为方面的异同。这是首次使用可比样本和调查工具对这两个人群的健康信息搜索行为进行直接比较的研究之一。结果表明，美国人（包括美国不同种族/族裔群体）比中国人更有可能主动寻求健康信息。美国人也更倾向于将中介沟通作为其主要的健康信息来源，而中国人则更倾向于人际来源。中国人报告的医患沟通质量低于其美国同行。这些国家之间的差异突出表明，使用不同的信息来源来覆盖特定人群非常重要，并且需要在不同文化中制定有针对性的公共卫生干预计划。
