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What Causes Health Information Avoidance Behavior under Normalized COVID-19 Pandemic? A Research from Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Affected by the normalization of the COVID-19 pandemic, people’s lives are subject to many restrictions, and they are under enormous psychological and physical pressure. In this situation, health information may be a burden and cause of anxiety for people; thus, the refusal of health information occ...

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Autores principales: Ding, Qingxiu, Gu, Yadi, Zhang, Gongrang, Li, Xingguo, Zhao, Qin, Gu, Dongxiao, Yang, Xuejie, Wang, Xiaoyu
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9331662/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35893203
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10081381
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author Ding, Qingxiu
Gu, Yadi
Zhang, Gongrang
Li, Xingguo
Zhao, Qin
Gu, Dongxiao
Yang, Xuejie
Wang, Xiaoyu
author_facet Ding, Qingxiu
Gu, Yadi
Zhang, Gongrang
Li, Xingguo
Zhao, Qin
Gu, Dongxiao
Yang, Xuejie
Wang, Xiaoyu
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description Affected by the normalization of the COVID-19 pandemic, people’s lives are subject to many restrictions, and they are under enormous psychological and physical pressure. In this situation, health information may be a burden and cause of anxiety for people; thus, the refusal of health information occurs frequently. Health-information-avoidance behavior has produced potential impacts and harms on people’s lives. Based on more than 120,000 words of textual data obtained from semi-structured interviews, summarizing a case collection of 55 events, this paper explores the factors and how they combine to lead to avoidance of health information. First, the influencing factors are constructed according to the existing research, and then the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) method is used to discover the configuration relationship of health-information-avoidance behavior. The results show that the occurrence of health-information avoidance is not the result of a single factor but the result of a configuration of health-information literacy, negative emotions, perceived information, health-information presentation, cross-platform distribution, and the network information environment. These findings provide inspiration for reducing the adverse consequences of avoiding health information and improving the construction of health-information service systems.
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spelling pubmed-93316622022-07-29 What Causes Health Information Avoidance Behavior under Normalized COVID-19 Pandemic? A Research from Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis Ding, Qingxiu Gu, Yadi Zhang, Gongrang Li, Xingguo Zhao, Qin Gu, Dongxiao Yang, Xuejie Wang, Xiaoyu Healthcare (Basel) Article Affected by the normalization of the COVID-19 pandemic, people’s lives are subject to many restrictions, and they are under enormous psychological and physical pressure. In this situation, health information may be a burden and cause of anxiety for people; thus, the refusal of health information occurs frequently. Health-information-avoidance behavior has produced potential impacts and harms on people’s lives. Based on more than 120,000 words of textual data obtained from semi-structured interviews, summarizing a case collection of 55 events, this paper explores the factors and how they combine to lead to avoidance of health information. First, the influencing factors are constructed according to the existing research, and then the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) method is used to discover the configuration relationship of health-information-avoidance behavior. The results show that the occurrence of health-information avoidance is not the result of a single factor but the result of a configuration of health-information literacy, negative emotions, perceived information, health-information presentation, cross-platform distribution, and the network information environment. These findings provide inspiration for reducing the adverse consequences of avoiding health information and improving the construction of health-information service systems. MDPI 2022-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9331662/ /pubmed/35893203 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10081381 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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What Causes Health Information Avoidance Behavior under Normalized COVID-19 Pandemic? A Research from Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis
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title_full_unstemmed What Causes Health Information Avoidance Behavior under Normalized COVID-19 Pandemic? A Research from Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis
title_short What Causes Health Information Avoidance Behavior under Normalized COVID-19 Pandemic? A Research from Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9331662/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35893203
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10081381
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