Users’ Willingness to Share Health Information in a Social Question-and-Answer Community: Cross-sectional Survey in China
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Li, PengFei; Xu, Lin; Tang, TingTing; Wu, Xiaoqian; Huang, Cheng
- Source
- JMIR Medical Informatics, Vol 9, Iss 3, p e26265 (2021)
- Subject
- Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics
R858-859.7
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2291-9694
BackgroundSocial question-and-answer communities play an increasingly important role in the dissemination of health information. It is important to identify influencing factors of user willingness to share health information to improve public health literacy. ObjectiveThis study explored influencing factors of social question-and-answer community users who share health information to provide reference for the construction of a high-quality health information sharing community. MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted through snowball sampling of 185 participants who are Zhihu users in China. A structural equation analysis was used to verify the interaction and influence of the strength between variables in the model. Hierarchical regression was also used to test the mediating effect in the model. ResultsAltruism (β=.264, P