Older adults and the digital divide: assessing results of a Web-based survey
Journal of Technology in Human Services - New advances in technology for social work education and practice
Technology and Social Inclusion: Rethinking the Digital Divide
Technology and Social Inclusion: Rethinking the Digital Divide
Online Social Support: The Interplay of Social Networks and Computer-Mediated Communication
Online Social Support: The Interplay of Social Networks and Computer-Mediated Communication
Digital circles of support: Meeting the information needs of older people
Computers in Human Behavior
Social Computing and Virtual Communities
Social Computing and Virtual Communities
Sheltered in cyberspace? Computer use among the unsheltered 'street' homeless
Computers in Human Behavior
Knowledge construction in an outsider community: Extending the communities of practice concept
Computers in Human Behavior
The presentation of health-related search results and its impact on negative emotional outcomes
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
HIKM '11 Proceedings of the Fourth Australasian Workshop on Health Informatics and Knowledge Management - Volume 120
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Information and communication technologies have introduced new and impressive tools for information sharing and building computer-mediated knowledge repositories in a global context. Clinicians and researchers pay particular attention to technology as a promising tool to empower patients through self-health care management skills and to improve health care communication with providers. This represents a significant step in modern medicine of computer-integrated patient self-health care. This paper aims to examine perceived informational and decisional benefits of computer-mediated health and medical information, more specifically of cancer web-sites, and presents the results of two separate statistical models of perceived benefits. Multivariate hierarchical regression analyses showed that the frequency and time spent visiting medical web-sites are significant predictors of perceived benefits of computer-mediated knowledge. The results also indicated that computer-mediated medical information empowers health consumers to make informed decisions for their health care. The discussion section of the paper contextualizes the findings within the current sociomedical trends of self-health care and partnership with health providers. It is important to understand the perceived benefits of using computer-mediated medical knowledge, so that information and communication technologies can be targeted to educate patients to make informed decisions and to develop patient self-health-care management competencies.