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Source of Health Information and Support

   

Added on  2020-03-16

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“Television is a good source of health information”Although clinicians are the main and most trusted source of health information and support, buttelevision, and Internet are also considered as sources of supplement health information[ CITATION Fox13 \l 1033 ]. Seeking any kind of health information is mainly related topositive outcomes for example discussing results with physician, knowledge about medialoptions as well as treatment adherence [ CITATION Cut10 \l 1033 ]. There are various sourcesof health information which provide excellent information related to health and amongst themfew very common ones are Internet, television, books, magazines and newspapers etc.[ CITATION Ank11 \l 1033 ].In a study that explored the manner in which health information sources impact the decisionmaking amongst Hispanic mothers during the first 1000 days of their children , it was foundthat amongst the trusted health information service providers along with health care providers,male and female family members , other Internet sources , television was also there[ CITATION Cri15 \l 1033 ]. That is why television medical talks are becoming much popularsource of health information. The reason being through a particular process the people havestarted unconditionally accepting the information which is presented to them in such shows. In astudy conducted on 588 South Korean women , using the Heuristic Systematic Model (HSM),the connection between information appraisals, information behaviors , information exposure aswell as unconditional acceptance of health information was studies. The study indicated thatboth kinds of information appraisals are linked with information seeking, which in turn is relatednegatively with unconditional acceptance of information [ CITATION Jeo17 \l 1033 ]. In a longitudinal study conducted on 300 respondents to find out the impact on the level ofknowledge about nutrition related to a specially developed television programme , it showedthat knowledge levels increased amongst all the groups after watching the programme. Thusgenerally it can be said that the television media users indicate higher levels of health knowledgeas compared to non-user counterparts. Both television as well as newspapers is considered to becritical and important sources of health information [ CITATION Fei15 \l 1033 ].

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