• DocumentCode
    2414548
  • Title

    How Students Search for Consumer Health Information on the Web

  • Author

    Efthimiadis, E.N.

  • Author_Institution
    Inf. Sch., Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    5-8 Jan. 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    8
  • Abstract
    This study investigates how undergraduate and graduate students search the web for consumer health information. The 32 participants were asked to find answers to four health related topics. Data was collected through pre- and post search questionnaires, think-aloud protocol, and transaction logs. The results presented focus on the search process as a whole and by question and on the user satisfaction.
  • Keywords
    Internet; medical information systems; World Wide Web; consumer health information; search questionnaires; think-aloud protocol; transaction logs; user satisfaction; Access protocols; Blogs; Discussion forums; Frequency; Information resources; Information retrieval; Internet; Libraries; Medical services; Search engines;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    System Sciences, 2009. HICSS '09. 42nd Hawaii International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Big Island, HI
  • ISSN
    1530-1605
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3450-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/HICSS.2009.240
  • Filename
    4755489
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2414548