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Public (e)Health, Digital Epidemiology and Public Health Informatics (1008) eHealth Literacy / Digital Literacy (527) Information Seeking, Information Needs (561) Medicine 2.0: Social Media, Open, Participatory, Collaborative Medicine (1911) Quality/Credibility of eHealth Information and Trust Issues (654) Information Quality in Digital Media (407) Information Retrieval (348)

Published on in Vol 25 (2023)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/44741, first published .
Chronic Diseases and Sociodemographic Characteristics Associated With Online Health Information Seeking and Using Social Networking Sites: Nationally Representative Cross-sectional Survey in Japan

Chronic Diseases and Sociodemographic Characteristics Associated With Online Health Information Seeking and Using Social Networking Sites: Nationally Representative Cross-sectional Survey in Japan

Chronic Diseases and Sociodemographic Characteristics Associated With Online Health Information Seeking and Using Social Networking Sites: Nationally Representative Cross-sectional Survey in Japan

Authors of this article:

Seigo Mitsutake1 Author Orcid Image ;   Yoshimitsu Takahashi2 Author Orcid Image ;   Aki Otsuki3, 4 Author Orcid Image ;   Jun Umezawa5 Author Orcid Image ;   Akiko Yaguchi-Saito3, 6 Author Orcid Image ;   Junko Saito3 Author Orcid Image ;   Maiko Fujimori3, 7 Author Orcid Image ;   Taichi Shimazu3 Author Orcid Image ;   INFORM Study Group8
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