Jia Wufan, Sun Mengru, Huang Guanxiong, Payton Brett, Yu Wenting
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
Health Educ Behav. 2025 Feb;52(1):113-121. doi: 10.1177/10901981241278587. Epub 2024 Sep 22.
To unpack the process of how health information seeking influences health behaviors, we examined the mediating roles of interpersonal discussion and online information sharing in the associations between health information seeking and healthy lifestyle behaviors and the moderating role of health literacy in the associations among health information seeking, interpersonal discussion, online information sharing, and healthy lifestyle behaviors. Data from a large-scale, representative survey ( = 916) revealed that interpersonal discussion and online information sharing mediated the associations between health information seeking and healthy lifestyle behaviors. The associations between health information seeking and interpersonal discussion and between health information seeking and online information sharing were stronger for individuals with high health literacy than those with low health literacy. Findings advance the understanding of the influence of health information seeking and provide practical guidance for promoting a healthy lifestyle.
为剖析健康信息搜寻影响健康行为的过程，我们考察了人际讨论和在线信息分享在健康信息搜寻与健康生活方式行为之间的关联中所起的中介作用，以及健康素养在健康信息搜寻、人际讨论、在线信息分享和健康生活方式行为之间的关联中所起的调节作用。来自一项大规模代表性调查（n = 916）的数据显示，人际讨论和在线信息分享介导了健康信息搜寻与健康生活方式行为之间的关联。健康素养高的个体在健康信息搜寻与人际讨论之间以及健康信息搜寻与在线信息分享之间的关联，比健康素养低的个体更强。研究结果增进了对健康信息搜寻影响的理解，并为促进健康生活方式提供了实践指导。
