"I just don't know what i don't know!": A longitudinal investigation of the perceived usefulness of information to people with type 2 diabetes

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-10

  St Jean, Beth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer health information behavior; Incognizance; Information behavior; Information needs; Information seeking; Information use; Type 2 diabetes; Usefulness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878619141     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15508390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.14504901030     Document Type: Article

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