Research on the Influencing Factors of Health Information Acquisition of the Elderly from the Perspective of Information Encounter
[Objective/Significance]The aging of the population in China,the pension and health problems of the elderly are more and more concerned by the government and society.Access to health information for the elderly can improve their health literacy and quality of life,promote healthy elderly care.[Methods/Processes]Based on the grounded theory method,the health information acquisition experience of 30 elderly people was collected through semi-structured interviews,and the factors affecting the health information acquisition behavior of the elderly were summarized and analyzed by open coding,spindle coding and selective coding.[Results/Conclusions]The results showed that the health information acquisition behavior of the elderly was affected by environmental factors,psychological factors,ability factors,media factors,perception factors and information factors.Among them,the perceptual factors play a direct role,and the other factors play an indirect role.On this basis,the health information acquisition strategy and service mode of the elderly can be further optimized.
Health Information Acquisition BehaviorInfluencing FactorsSenior CitizenGrounded Theory
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