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Consumer & Patient Education and Shared-Decision Making (892) Participatory Medicine & E-Patients (891) Evidence: Original Papers (3) Information Seeking, Information Needs (570)

Published on in Vol 28 (2026)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/78836, first published .
Seeking But Not Discussing Online Health Information With Physicians: Cross-Sectional Survey Study of eHealth Literacy–Empowerment Profiles and Patient-Centered Communication

Seeking But Not Discussing Online Health Information With Physicians: Cross-Sectional Survey Study of eHealth Literacy–Empowerment Profiles and Patient-Centered Communication

Seeking But Not Discussing Online Health Information With Physicians: Cross-Sectional Survey Study of eHealth Literacy–Empowerment Profiles and Patient-Centered Communication

Authors of this article:

Qianfeng Lu1 Author Orcid Image ;   Wen Jiao2 Author Orcid Image ;   Angela Chang3 Author Orcid Image ;   Peter Johannes Schulz1, 4 Author Orcid Image
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Qianfeng Lu   1 , PhD ;   Wen Jiao   2 , PhD ;   Angela Chang   3 , PhD ;   Peter Johannes Schulz   1, 4 , PhD

1 Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland

2 School of Communication, Soochow University, Soochow, China

3 Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau, Macau, China

4 Department of Communication and Media, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Corresponding Author:

  • Peter Johannes Schulz, PhD
  • Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society
  • Università della Svizzera italiana
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  • Lugano 6900
  • Switzerland
  • Phone: 41 586664724
  • Email: schulzp@usi.ch