User-generated online health content: a survey of Internet users in the United Kingdom.

Journal article

BACKGROUND: The production of health information has begun to shift from commercial organizations to health care users themselves. People increasingly go online to share their own health and illness experiences and to access information others have posted, but this behavior has not been investigated at a population level in the United Kingdom. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to explore access and production of user-generated health content among UK Internet users and to investigate relationships b...

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Authors: O'Neill, B; Ziebland, S; Valderas, J; Lupiáñez-Villanueva, F

• Publication status: Published
• Publisher: Journal of Medical Internet Research
• Journal: Journal of medical Internet research
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 4
• Pages: e118
• Publication date: 2014-01-01
• DOI: 10.2196/jmir.3187
• EISSN: 1438-8871
• ISSN: 1439-4456
• Language: English
• Keywords: Consumer Health Information; Adult; Employment; Age Factors; Data Collection; Male; Internet; Cluster Analysis; Young Adult; Humans; Female; Adolescent; Middle Aged; Health Status; Great Britain; Aged