Where Do College Students Get Health Information? Believability and Use of Health Information Sources

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 713-722

  Vader, Amanda M ^a   Walters, Scott T ^a   Roudsari, Bahaman ^a   Nguyen, Norma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

college students; health information; health sources

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSUMER; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SEEKING; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STUDENT; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MALE; STUDENTS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856152805     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: 15526372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839910369995     Document Type: Article

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