•  
  •  
 

Scientific Information Research

Keywords

meta-ethnography; DEMATEL; information behavior; elderly health

Abstract

[Purpose/significance] Health information search is an important way for elderly people to actively cope with aging. Identifying the key factors affecting of their health information searching and exploring the correlation among these factors are of positive significance for promoting the elderly proactive health ability.

[Method/process] This paper firstly integrated the original research through a meta-ethnographic approach to form a set of factors influencing the elderly health information search. The DEMATEL method was then used to analyze the interrelationships among the influencing factors and identify the key influencing factors.

[Result/conclusion]The study finds that, the influencing factors of elderly health information search mainly come from five dimensions: individual, demand, information, cost, and support. The health awareness, health status, past experience, psychological characteristics, self-efficacy, and cultural level of the individual dimension, the policy direction and medical environment of the support dimension, and the information efficiency of the information dimension are key factors affecting the elderly health information search.

First Page

35

Last Page

45

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

ꎺ 10.19809/j.cnki.kjqbyj.2025.04.004

Download

Share

COinS