Center for Health Promotion Disease Prevention, University of Texas School of Public, Health, TX, Houston, 77030, USA.
Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon.
Inform Health Soc Care. 2022 Jan 2;47(1):53-61. doi: 10.1080/17538157.2021.1925676. Epub 2021 May 20.
One of the most commonly searched topics on the internet in the United States is cancer. Our study aims to provide a general overview of the predictors of trust for two health information sources, doctors and the internet, when seeking cancer-related information. The data were obtained from the 2018 HINTS 5 Cycle 2 survey, which was administered from January through May to a total of 3,504 respondents. We carried out next a series of ordinal logistic regression models to identify predictors of high trust in doctors and the internet separately for cancer-seeking information. Demographic predictor variables varied as predictors of high trust for cancer knowledge across both sources. Respondents who reported less confidence in their ability to seek cancer information had significantly higher odds of high trust in both doctors (OR = 8.43, CI: 5.58-12.73) and the internet (OR = 2.93, CI: 1.97-4.35) as compared to those who reported being "completely confident" in their ability to obtain cancer information. Understanding the key predictors of trust in doctors and the internet is crucial to the enhancement of health. The role of confidence as a predictor of trust in seeking cancer information has been shown to consistently influence the levels of trust attributed to each topic.
在美国，互联网上搜索最多的话题之一是癌症。我们的研究旨在提供关于医生和互联网这两个健康信息来源的信任预测因素的概述，以获取与癌症相关的信息。数据来自于 2018 年 HINTS 5 周期 2 调查，该调查于 1 月至 5 月期间对总共 3504 名受访者进行了调查。我们分别对一系列有序逻辑回归模型进行了分析，以确定对医生和互联网的高信任度的预测因素，以便分别寻找癌症信息。在两个来源中，对癌症知识的高信任度的预测因素因人口统计学预测变量而异。与那些对自己获取癌症信息的能力“完全有信心”的人相比，报告对自己寻找癌症信息的能力缺乏信心的人对医生（OR=8.43，CI：5.58-12.73）和互联网（OR=2.93，CI：1.97-4.35）的高信任度的可能性显著更高。了解对医生和互联网的信任的关键预测因素对于增进健康至关重要。信心作为对寻求癌症信息的信任的预测因素的作用已被证明始终会影响对每个主题的信任度。
