• The Review and Enlightenment of Online Health Information Seeking Behavior Experimental Research Contents

    Subjects: Library Science,Information Science >> Information Science submitted time 2023-04-01 Cooperative journals: 《图书情报工作》

    Abstract: [Purpose/significance] This paper makes a sorting and review on the existing experimental study of online health information seeking behavior, and makes some specific proposal on future experiment research's extended application, aiming to provide some references for the selection of follow-up study.[Method/process] This paper used qualitative data analysis software to analyze the content of the 41 research literatures on experimental study of online health information seeking behavior, and sorted out 4 aspects of behavior influence factor, behavior type, behavior situation and behavior group characteristics. Through the specific analysis, the experimental content and future extended application's research directions were discussed in detail.[Result/conclusion] On the basis of the totalization of behavior influence factor, the depth of behavior type, the diversification of behavior situation, the multi-dimensional and detail of behavior group characteristics, the future research directions of online health information seeking behavior experiment should focus on those aspects:the applying method of experimental research in real environment, the comparative study of mobile and cross-screen search of health information, the differentiation analysis of especial situation and group and so on.