As explained Dr. Charles Almond, scientific director of the website seemly, “what motivates the patient to seek information on the Internet is the fact supplement or extend the information already available and can thus participate in making decisions affecting their health.”
The study, which was carried out on 556 patients, also shows that the profile of patients seeking information on the Internet is that of a woman (70.4%), between 30 and 65 (66.7%). For Dr. Almond, “the caretaker role usually attributed to women does have more health information needs of man.”
However, when looking for health information on the web, both men and women do especially issues related to prevention of diseases (36.5%), compared to 22% that only questions about diseases and 9, about 5% treatments. In addition, 32% use it for information on any aspect of health.
For this reason, for this specialist, the family physician is in the best position to advise their patients on what sites you can find the best health information to your health problem.
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