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eHealth Literacy / Digital Literacy (878) Public Health (376) Equity and Digital Divide (516) Use and User Demographics of mHealth (506) Internet Access and Digital Technology Use in an Elderly Population (609)

Published on in Vol 27 (2025)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/77549, first published .
Elderly Asian couple looking at a laptop, possibly for online banking or telehealth.

Trajectories and Influencing Factors of Online Health Information–Seeking Behaviors Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study

Trajectories and Influencing Factors of Online Health Information–Seeking Behaviors Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study

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Ting Wang1 Author Orcid Image ;   Qian Dong2 Author Orcid Image ;   Qun Sun3 Author Orcid Image ;   Hui Dong3 Author Orcid Image ;   Xiaolong Bu1 Author Orcid Image ;   Yanan Wang1 Author Orcid Image ;   Yanni Su1 Author Orcid Image ;   Cuiping Liu1 Author Orcid Image
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