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eHealth Literacy / Digital Literacy (572) Peer-to-Peer Support and Online Communities (835) Information Quality in Digital Media (415) Behavioural Surveillance for Public Health (313) Infoveillance, Infodemiology, Digital Disease Surveillance, Infodemic Management (1160) Medicine 2.0: Social Media, Open, Participatory, Collaborative Medicine (1967) Information Seeking, Information Needs (582) Infodemiology and Infoveillance (1599)

Published on in Vol 26 (2024)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/54107, first published .
Generation Z’s Health Information Avoidance Behavior: Insights From Focus Group Discussions

Generation Z’s Health Information Avoidance Behavior: Insights From Focus Group Discussions

Generation Z’s Health Information Avoidance Behavior: Insights From Focus Group Discussions

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Chenjin Jia1 Author Orcid Image ;   Pengcheng Li1 Author Orcid Image
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