Comportamiento informacional: revisión de teorías posibles para su estudio / Information Behavior: a review of theories to consider for the study

Resumen El artículo tiene como objetivo identificar las posturas teóricas que influyen en los estudios de comportamiento informacional para el contexto universitario cubano. El análisis de contenido fue utilizado para estudiar las teorías que influyen en el estudio comportamiento informacional. Se determina que: 1) los estudios de CHI implican adoptar una visión interdisciplinar para precisar la complejidad de su cuerpo epistemológico, teórico y práctico, 2) Las teorías que con mayor precisión se ajustan a los estudios de CHI en el contexto universitario cubano son: Perspectiva Cognitiva, Principio de Zipf o del Menor Esfuerzo, Teoría General de Sistemas, Usos y Gratificaciones, Sense-Making. Se concluye que la disciplina Comportamiento Informacional se legitima cada vez más dentro de las Ciencias de la Información con un enfoque interdisciplinar.

Abstract The aim of the article is to identify the theoretical positions that influence information behavior studies for the Cuban university context. Content analysis was used to study the theories that influence the study. It was determined that: 1) the CHI studies imply an interdisciplinary vision for the complexity of its epistemological, theoretical and practical body, 2) The theories that more precisely fit the CHI studies in the Cuban university context are: Cognitive Perspective, Zipf Principle or Least Effort, General Theory of Systems, Uses and Gratifications, Sense-Making. It is concluded that the Information Behavior discipline is increasingly legitimized within the Information Sciences with an interdisciplinary approach.

The influencing factors of the initial trust in the background of mobile medical / 中国卫生政策研究

This paper reviews the current mobile business research hotspots,and explores the influencing fac-tors of the users' initial trust in the mobile medical background. For the first time,the TAM model is integrated into this study to explore the current situation. At the same time, we introduce the research scope and dimension of the perceived reputation in this context by combining the retreat avoidance and the related group variables in China. The trust mechanism was used to construct the research model on mobile medical care. A questionnaire survey and struc-tural equation model validation served to find out that product participation, the relevant groups, the perception of hospital and doctor's reputation and the security system have a significant impact on the user's initial trust in the mo-bile medical channel. The study results suggest that the mobile medical platform Interaction perfects the whole chan-nel service and at the same time does a good job of the platform itself.

Pattern of Pharmacist Consultation among the Health Counseling Services via Internet Portal Sites: A Pilot Study

BACKGROUND: With the development of information and communication technology, there is a growing number of people looking for health information on the internet. This pilot study was performed to analyze the pattern of pharmacist consultation on the internet portal site. METHODS: Questions and answers posted on the portal site “Naver Jisik-iN” from March 1st to 31th in 2016 were collected. Medications asked were categorized into prescription drugs, nonprescription drugs, sanitary aids, emergency drugs, functional health foods, and others. Medications were subcategorized into 14 according to the anatomical therapeutic chemical classification system. Questions were divided into 10 categories based on Hepler's drug-related problems. RESULTS: Of the 955 cases, females accounted for 59.5% and inquirers from 11 to 40 years old, 89.4%. The number of prescription drugs, nonprescription drugs, sanitary aids, emergency drugs, functional health foods, and others were 428 (44.8%), 328 (34.3%), 31 (3.3%), 2 (0.2%), 122 (12.8%), and 44 (4.6%), respectively. Questions for drugs acting on alimentary tract and metabolism took up 27.4% followed by those on nervous system, 13.6% and anti-infectives for systemic use, 12.2%. Pharmacist consultation regarding drug information, drug interaction, and adverse reaction occupied 47.9%, 15.2%, and 12.3%, respectively. CONCLUSION: Health counseling through online is predicted to increase steadily, so pharmacists should broaden their boundaries beyond off-line pharmacies to meet social needs.

Selection Criteria and Utilization of Health Information on the Internet by Consumers / 대한의료정보학회지

This study was conducted to investigate selection criteria of health information and utilization pattern of health information on the Web by the consumers. Data were collected through off-line and on-line surveys. The off-line survey was conducted with 64 white color office workers in seven companies. The on-line survey was conducted on JoongAng Ilbo 'Healthcare' and KIHASA 'Healthguide' Web sites and 216 participated in the survey. To compare the selection criteria of the consumers with that of health informatics experts, an e-mail survey was done with twenty-six health informatics experts. Selection criteria of health information rated by consumers were in order of accuracy of content, scope and depth of content, privacy and confidentiality, and readability. Experts ranked in order of accuracy of content, purpose of sites, scope and depth of content, and readability. Seventy eight percent of consumers used the Internet once a month to search health information, 60.4% visited health-related Web sites via Internet search. The majority (85%) visited 2-5 different Web sites when they searched for health information. Eighty three percent of consumers regarded the health information on Internet as reliable. Ninety percent of consumers said that the health information on Internet was useful. Consumers used the Internet 'to find disease-related information' (86.1%), 'to find information on exercise and nutrition' (77.9%), 'to get an on-line advice' (42.5%), and 'to buy products or medicine for health' (18.9%). The results of the present study suggested what the health informatics experts should consider when they provide health information on the Internet and what consumers demand when they filter quality health information.