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Information Retrieval (348) eHealth Literacy / Digital Literacy (528) Quality/Credibility of eHealth Information and Trust Issues (654) Information Seeking, Information Needs (561)

Published on in Vol 24, No 11 (2022): November

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/42447, first published .
Online Health Information Seeking Among Patients With Chronic Conditions: Integrating the Health Belief Model and Social Support Theory

Online Health Information Seeking Among Patients With Chronic Conditions: Integrating the Health Belief Model and Social Support Theory

Online Health Information Seeking Among Patients With Chronic Conditions: Integrating the Health Belief Model and Social Support Theory

Authors of this article:

Yuxiang Chris Zhao1 Author Orcid Image ;   Mengyuan Zhao2 Author Orcid Image ;   Shijie Song3, 4 Author Orcid Image
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