Feng Yulei
School of Journalism, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
School of Media and Communication, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
J Health Commun. 2025;30(1-3):72-81. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2025.2450617. Epub 2025 Jan 13.
With innovations in health information technology, there are increasing opportunities to search for health information online, with the potential to reduce health care costs and improve health outcomes for the family. This study aims to investigate how family communication processes influence online health information seeking for oneself (self OHIS) and for another person (surrogate OHIS). An online survey was conducted among 325 adults in China. The results showed that was positively related to family health history (FHH) communication intentions, whereas was negatively related to FHH communication intentions. was positively related to self and surrogate OHIS through the partial and masking mediation effects of FHH communication intentions, respectively. was negatively related to self OHIS through the full mediating effect of FHH communication intentions, while FHH communication intentions played a masking mediating role between and surrogate OHIS. Implications for extending family communication patterns research to health communication and cultural forces on OHIS are discussed.
随着健康信息技术的创新，在线搜索健康信息的机会越来越多，这有可能降低医疗成本并改善家庭的健康状况。本研究旨在调查家庭沟通流程如何影响为自己（自我在线健康信息搜索）和为他人（替代在线健康信息搜索）进行的在线健康信息搜索。在中国对325名成年人进行了一项在线调查。结果表明，[此处原文缺失具体变量]与家庭健康史（FHH）沟通意图呈正相关，而[此处原文缺失具体变量]与FHH沟通意图呈负相关。[此处原文缺失具体变量]分别通过FHH沟通意图的部分中介作用和掩盖中介作用与自我和替代在线健康信息搜索呈正相关。[此处原文缺失具体变量]通过FHH沟通意图的完全中介作用与自我在线健康信息搜索呈负相关，而FHH沟通意图在[此处原文缺失具体变量]和替代在线健康信息搜索之间起掩盖中介作用。本文讨论了将家庭沟通模式研究扩展到健康沟通以及在线健康信息搜索中的文化力量的意义。
