Study of access to health information and its influence factors among young people / 重庆医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To know of the concerning conditions of health information ,the ways to get health information ,and its influence factors among young people .Methods The health information seeking behaviors of people aged from 18 to 44 were inves-tigated by online electronic questionnaire and paper questionnaire from March to April in 2014 .Results 502 valid questionnaires were collected ,including 46 .81% men and 53 .19% women ,mean age was (29 .77 ± 6 .27)years old .40 .96% people were often concerned about the health information ,and 82 .39% people got health information through two or more ways ,the select frequency of the various ways were as followscomputer (77 .20% ) ,television (60 .3% ) ,relatives and friends (58 .70% ) ,mobile phones (54 .87% ) ,newspapers ,magazines ,books (53 .20% ) ,radio (9 .26% )and others 4 .80 % .Gender ,education ,occupation ,medical ed-ucation background ,all of them have effect on the ways of obtained health information ,and the effect of knowledge on the selection of internet pathways was greatest .Conclusion The internet has become the most major ways for people to obtain health informa-tion .The ways to obtain health information are affected by multiple factors ,so relative department should provide some convenient channels according to the characters of each group to get health information .