Punam Mony Singh, Carly A Wight, Olcan Sercinoglu, David C Wilson et al.
BACKGROUND: While it is known that the majority of pages on the World Wide Web are in English, little is known about the preferred language of users searching for health information online. OBJECTIVES: (1) To help global and domestic publishers, for example health and food agencies, to determine the...
Najma Akhther, Pradeep Sopory
This study conducted a cross-sectional online survey ( N = 865) to determine whether self-ratings of depression and anxiety, perceived peer support, and perceived health benefits of social media predicted mental health-related information seeking and sharing behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. H...
Alayne M. Adams, Herfina Nababan, S. M. Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi
BACKGROUND: The beneficial influence of social networks on health and wellbeing is well-established. In poor urban settlements in Bangladesh, BRAC's Manoshi programme trains community health workers (CHWs) to support women through pregnancy, delivery and postpartum periods. This paper test the hypot...
Nadia Islam, Shilpa Patel, Laura C. Wyatt, Shao-Chee Sim et al.
Health information can potentially mitigate adverse health outcomes among ethnic minority populations, but little research has examined how minorities access health information. The aim of this study was to examine variations in the use of health information sources among Asian American (AA) subgrou...
Nadim Sharif, Rubayet Rayhan Opu, Khalid J. Alzahrani, Shamsun Nahar Ahmed et al.
Background Health information has a profound impact on developing awareness and ultimately preventing the burden of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, but study in Bangladesh is lacking. Aims Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the impact of information from social media an...
Mohammad Afshar Ali, Khorshed Alam, Brad R. Taylor, Mahfuz Ashraf
BACKGROUND Existing studies have demonstrated that behavioural barriers impede eHealth usage among senior citizens. However, thus far, no analysis of how such barriers affect elderly people with disabilities (PwD) has been conducted. Thus, the study investigates the predictors of eHealth usage among...
Haya M. Al-Khatlan, Khan Ferdousour Rahman, Badriyah Aljazzaf
BackgroundThe internet is a powerful worldwide communication medium that provides its users with immediate information irrespective of their location, culture, language and time. E-health service will have a great impact in reducing the costs of health care, increasing satisfaction of patients and h...
Rajesh Khanna, N. Karikalan, Anil Mishra, Anchal Agarwal et al.
BACKGROUND: Quality and essential health information is considered one of the most cost-effective interventions to improve health for a developing country. Healthcare portals have revolutionalized access to health information and knowledge using the Internet and related technologies, but their usage...
Bipin Chaurasia, Giuseppe Emmanuele Umana, Gianluca Scalia, Francesco Barresi et al.
BACKGROUND: The use of social media to communicate and disseminate knowledge has increased exponentially, especially in the field of neurosurgery. 'Neurosurgery cocktail' (NC) was developed by a group of young neurosurgeons as a means of sharing didactic materials and clinical experiences via social...
Peter Williams, David Nicholas, Paul Huntington, Fiona McLean
This is the second part of a two-part paper examining the question of the evaluation of health information websites. It follows an extensive background and literature review that formed part one, and describes a user-centred evaluation of a commercial health site—that of Surgerydoor (http://www.surg...
Md. Hasan Al Banna, Mohammad Hamiduzzaman, Satyajit Kundu, Tasnu Ara et al.
Background Poverty and health illiteracy, combined with inappropriate systems to track disease and infection rates, contribute to children-and-mothers’ poor adherence to nutrient-rich foods intake in Bangladesh. Although risk factors for child and pregnant women malnutrition have been explored, the ...
Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Shafayatul Islam Shiblee, Heidi E. Jones
BACKGROUND: Aponjon (meaning "near and dear ones"), a mobile phone-based mHealth service, customized voice messages for expectant (6-42 weeks pregnancy) and new mothers (1-52 weeks after delivery) for promotion of recommended healthcare practices. The Aponjon system sent two voice messages per week ...
Islam Md. Mohaimenul, Touray Musa, Hsuan‐Chia Yang, Poly Tahmina Nasrin et al.
Web 2.0 has become a leading health communication platform and will continue to attract young users; therefore, the objective of this study was to understand the impact of Web 2.0 on health information seeking behavior among university students in Bangladesh. A random sample of adults (n = 199, mean...
Rezwana Jahan
The relationship between health education and health literacy is examined through a case study of a project to prevent diarrhoea in rural Bangladesh by CARE-Bangladesh in 1993. Health professionals in Bangladesh typically define health education as a one-way approach of information dissemination. Ac...
Linda Waldman, Tanvir Ahmed, Nigel Scott, Shahinoor Akter et al.
BACKGROUND: Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) which enable people to access, use and promote health information through digital technology, promise important health systems innovations which can challenge gatekeepers' control of information, through processes of disintermediation. C...