Hughes Allyson S, Beach Sarah, Vasistha Spruhaa, Heydarian Nazanin, Morera Osvaldo
Department of Primary Care, Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Institution, Athens, OH, United States.
Denison University, Granville, OH, United States.
JMIR Diabetes. 2024 Jul 4;9:e55424. doi: 10.2196/55424.
Individuals with chronic diseases often search for health information online. The Diabetes Online Community (DOC) is an active community with members who exchange health information; however, few studies have examined health information brokering in the DOC.
The aim of this study was to develop and validate the Attitudes Toward Seeking Health Information Online (ATSHIO) scale in a sample of adults with type 1 diabetes (T1D).
People with T1D were recruited through the DOC, specifically Facebook and Twitter. They were provided with a Qualtrics link to complete the survey. This was a mixed methods study that used thematic analysis along with existing theory and formative research to design the quantitative ATSHIO scale.
A total of 166 people with T1D participated in this study. Confirmatory factor analyses determined a 2-factor scale (Trusting and Evaluating Online Health Information in the DOC and Engaging With Online Health Information in the DOC) with good convergent validity and discriminant validity. Correlations were found between social support, online health information-seeking, diabetes distress, and disease management.
The ATSHIO scale can be used to investigate how people with diabetes are using the internet for obtaining health information, which is especially relevant in the age of telehealth and Health 2.0.
慢性病患者经常在网上搜索健康信息。糖尿病在线社区(DOC)是一个活跃的社区,其成员会交流健康信息;然而,很少有研究考察过DOC中的健康信息中介情况。
本研究的目的是在1型糖尿病(T1D)成年患者样本中开发并验证在线寻求健康信息态度(ATSHIO)量表。
通过DOC,特别是脸书和推特招募T1D患者。为他们提供了一个Qualtrics链接以完成调查。这是一项混合方法研究,使用主题分析以及现有理论和形成性研究来设计定量的ATSHIO量表。
共有166名T1D患者参与了本研究。验证性因素分析确定了一个双因素量表(信任和评估DOC中的在线健康信息以及参与DOC中的在线健康信息),具有良好的收敛效度和区分效度。发现社会支持、在线健康信息寻求、糖尿病困扰和疾病管理之间存在相关性。
ATSHIO量表可用于调查糖尿病患者如何利用互联网获取健康信息,这在远程医疗和健康2.0时代尤为重要。