期刊名称:International Journal of Computer and Information Technology
印刷版ISSN:2279-0764
出版年度:2013
卷号:2
期号:5
页码:880
出版社:International Journal of Computer and Information Technology
摘要:Quality and authenticity of the digital information have always been major concerns for health and information professionals. Specifically, digital health information offered directly to the users much more exceptional concerns, in which users are prone to use faulty health information within non-healthy environment (the internet) without professionals help and guidance. This study seeks to find out what are the trusted characteristics of good digital health information which is important for the users and the providers, and what are the factors that people consider in trusting and distrusting digital health information over the Internet. The paper starts with a brief review of related studies and in the fo llowing we described the survey that has been conducted. We then present the data collected and our analysis. Finally, we conclude with a list of information elements that health websites must provide in order to gain the trust of users on digital health information
关键词:health information; trust; information and content ; elements; security elements; privacy elements; health websites