Online HIV prevention information: How black female college students are seeking and perceiving

Internet Research

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 520-543

  Payton, Fay Cobb ^a   Kvasny, Lynette ^b   Kiwanuka Tondo, James ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black women; Health information; HIV Prevention; ICT design; Information needs; Information seeking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926673760     PISSN: 10662243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IntR-09-2013-0193     Document Type: Article

References (68)

1. Abrums, M. (2000), “Jesus will fix it after awhile’: meanings and health”, Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 50 No. 1, pp. 89-105.
2. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2012), “National healthcare disparities report, 2011”, US Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD, available at: www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhdr11/nhdr11.pdf (accessed October 2, 2013).
3. Airhihenbuwa, C.O. and Liburd, L. (2006), “Eliminating health disparities in the African American population: the interface of culture, gender, and power”, Health Education Behavior, Vol. 33 No. 4, pp. 488-501.
4. Ayalon, L. and Young, M.A. (2005), “Racial group differences in help-seeking behaviors”, Journal of Social Psychology, Vol. 145 No. 4, pp. 391-403.
5. Balsa, A.I. and McGuire, T.G. (2003), “Prejudice, clinical uncertainty, and stereotyping as sources of health disparities”, Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 22 No. 1, pp. 89-116.
6. Begley, E., Crosby, R.A., DiClemente, R.J., Wingood, G.M. and Rose, E. (2003), “Older partners and STD prevalence among pregnant African American teens”, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Vol. 30 No. 3, pp. 211-213.
7. Berger, M., Wagner, T.H. and Baker, L.C. (2005), “Internet use and stigmatized illness”, Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 61 No. 8, pp. 1821-1827.
8. Bird, S.T. and Bogart, L.M. (2001), “Perceived race-based and socioeconomic status (SES)-based discrimination in interactions with health care providers”, Ethnicity and Disease, Vol. 11 No. 3, pp. 554-563.
9. Brock, A. (2007), “A belief in humanity is a belief in colored men’: using culture to span the digital divide”, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Vol. 11 No. 1, pp. 357-374.
10. Bruce, H. (1999), “Perceptions of the internet: what people think when they search the internet for information”, Internet Research, Vol. 9 No. 3, pp. 187-199.
11. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) (2004), “HIV/AIDS among women”, Atlanta, GA, available at: www.advocatesforyouth.org/component/content/article/106-publications/499-young-african-american-women-and-hiv?tmpl¼component&page¼(accessed September 2013).
12. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) (2008), “HIV/AIDS among women”, CDC, Atlanta, GA, available at: www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/women/resources/factsheets/pdf/women.pdf (accessed July 13, 2012).
13. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) (2011), “HIV among youth”, CDC, Atlanta, GA, available at: www.cdc.gov/hiv/youth (accessed June 20, 2012).
14. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) (2012), “HIV and AIDS among African Americans”, CDC, Atlanta, GA, available at: www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/docs/2012/CDC-AA-0612-508.pdf (accessed June 20, 2012).
15. Chatman, E.A. (1999), “Life in a small world: applicability of gratification theory to information-seeking behavior”, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Vol. 42 No. 6, pp. 438-449.
16. Cline, R.J.W. and Haynes, K.M. (2001), “Consumer health information seeking on the internet: the state of the art”, Health Education Research, Vol. 16 No. 6, pp. 671-692.
17. Courtright, C. (2005), “Health information-seeking among Latino newcomers: an exploratory study”, Information Research, Vol. 10 No. 2, p. 224, available at: http://informationr.net/ir/ 10-2/paper224.html (accessed July 1, 2012).
18. Dervin, B. (2005), “Libraries reaching out with health information to vulnerable populations: guidance from research on information seeking and use”, Journal of the Medical Library Association, Vol. 93 No. S4, pp. S74-S80.
19. Detlefsen, E.G. (2004), “Where am I to go? Use of the Internet for consumer health information by two vulnerable communities”, Library Trends, Vol. 53 No. 2, pp. 283-300.
20. DiClemente, R.J. and Wingood, G.M. (1995), “A randomized controlled trial of an HIV sexual risk-reduction intervention for young African-American women”, Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 274 No. 16, pp. 1271-1276.
21. DiClemente, R.J., Wingood, G.M., Harrington, K.F., Lang, L.L., Davie, S.L., Hook, E.W., Oh, M.K., Crosby, R.A., Hertzberg, V.S., Gordon, A.B., Hardin, J.W., Parker, S. and Robillard, A. (2004), “Efficacy of an HIV prevention intervention for African American adolescent girls: a randomized controlled trial”, Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 292 No. 2, pp. 171-179.
22. Eng, T.R. and Butler, W.T. (1997), The Hidden Epidemic: Confronting Sexually Transmitted Diseases, National Academy Press, Washington, DC.
23. Fairer-Wessels, F.A. (2004), “Information needs and information-seeking behaviour of leisure tourists: a pilot study of professional black women in Pretoria”, Mousaion, Vol. 22 No. 2, pp. 136-149.
24. Frith, H. (2000), “Focusing on sex: using focus groups in sex research”, Sexualities, Vol. 3 No. 3, pp. 275-297.
25. Gibbons, M.C. (2005), “A historical overview of health disparities and the potential of eHealth solutions”, Journal of Medical Internet Research, Vol. 7 No. 5, p. e50, available at: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1550690/ (accessed May 30, 2011).
26. Gollop, C.J. (1997), “Health information-seeking behavior and older African American women”, Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, Vol. 85 No. 2, pp. 141-146.
27. HealthRatings.org (2007), “Health improvement institute-website ratings”, available at: www.hii.org/763.htm (accessed April 10, 2011).
28. Ho, L.A., Kuo, T.H. and Binshan, L. (2012), “How social identification and trust influence organizational online knowledge sharing”, Internet Research, Vol. 22 No. 1, pp. 4-28.
29. Hobson, W.D. (2001), “Racial discrimination in a health care interview project. Special Report”, Public Health Seattle and King County, Seattle, WA.
30. IRIN/PlusNews (2008), “AFRICA: mind your language-a short guide to HIV/AIDS slang”, available at: www.plusnews.org/Report/78809/AFRICA-Mind-your-language-a-shortguide-to-HIV-AIDS-slang (accessed July 20, 2012).
31. Kaiser Family Foundation (2007), “Black Americans and HIV/AIDS”, Menlo Park, CA, available at: www.kff.org/hivaids/upload/6089-04.pdf (accessed June 20, 2012).
32. Kalichman, S., Kelly, J.A., Hunter, T.L., Murphy, D. and Tyler, R. (1993), “Culturally tailored HIVAIDS risk-reduction messaging targeted to African American urban women: impact on risk sensitization and risk reduction”, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Vol. 61 No. 2, pp. 291-295.
33. Kim, K.H., Linnan, L., Kulik, N., Carlisle, V., Enga, Z. and Bentley, M. (2007), “Linking beauty and health among African American women: using focus group data to build culturally and contextually appropriate interventions”, Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 41-59.
34. Kolko, B., Nakamura, L. and Rodman, G. (2000), Race in Cyberspace, Routledge, New York, NY.
35. Kvasny, L. (2005), “The role of the habitus in shaping discourses about the digital divide”, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Vol. 10 No. 2, available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2005.tb00242.x (accessed October 2, 2013).
36. Kvasny, L. and Igwe, F. (2008), “An African-American weblog community’s reading of AIDS in Black America”, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Vol. 13 No. 2, pp. 569-592.
37. Kvasny, L. and Payton, F.C. (2008), “African Americans and the digital divide”, in Khosrow-Pour,M. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 2nd ed., Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA, pp. 78-82.
38. Kvasny, L. and Warren, J. (2006), “The representation and performance of menu-driven identities in online health portals”, in Trauth, E. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Information Technology and Gender, Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA, pp. 745-751.
39. LaViest, T.A., Nickerson, K. and Bowie, J. (2000), “Attitudes about racism, medical mistrust, and satisfaction with care among African American andWhite cardiac patients”, Medical Care Research and Review, Vol. 57 No. 1, pp. 146-191.
40. Matthews, A., Sellergren, S., Manfredi, C. and Williams, M. (2002), “Factors influencing medical information seeking among Africa American cancer patients”, Journal of Health Communication, Vol. 7 No. 3, pp. 205-219.
41. Morey, O. (2007), “Health information ties: preliminary findings on the health information seeking behaviour of an African-American community”, Information Research, Vol. 12 No. 2, available at: http://InformationR.net/ir/12-2/paper297.html (accessed October 2, 2013).
42. Nakumara, L. (2002), Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet, Routledge, New York, NY.
43. Nardi, C. and O’Day, V. (1999), “Chapter four: information ecologies”, First Monday, Vol. 4 No. 5, available at: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/672/ 582 (accessed October 25, 2012).
44. National Health Interview Survey (2009), available at: www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_10/ sr10_249.pdf (accessed March 10, 2011).
45. Nicholson, W., Grason, H.A. and Powe, N.R. (2003), “The relationship of race to women’s use of health information resources”, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vol. 188 No. 2, pp. 580-585.
46. Nicholson, W., Gardner, B., Grason, H.A. and Powe, N.R. (2005), “The association between women’s health information use and health care visits”, Women’s Health Issues, Vol. 15 No. 6, pp. 240-248.
47. Paek, H.J., Bae, B.J., Hove, T. and Yu, H. (2011), “Theories into practice: a content analysis of anti-smoking websites”, Internet Research, Vol. 21 No. 1, pp. 5-25.
48. Payton, F.C. (2009), “Beyond the IT magic bullet: HIV/AIDS prevention education and public policy”, Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice, Vol. 3 No. 2, pp. 13-33.
49. Payton, F.C. and Kiwanuka-Tondo, J. (2009), “Contemplating public policy in AIDS/HIV online content, then where is the technology spirit?”, European Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 18 No. 3, pp. 192-204.
50. Payton, F.C., Kiwanuka-Tondo, J. and Kvasny, L. (2012), “Black female voices: designing an HIV information artifact”, 4th International Conference on the Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, Taylor and Francis Group Publisher, San Francisco, CA, July 21-25.
51. Pew Internet & American Life Project (2006), “Online health search 2006”, available at: www.pewInternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Online_Health_2006.pdf (accessed June 12, 2012).
52. Pew Internet and American Life Project (2011), “The social life of health information”, available at: www.pewinternet.org/2011/05/12/the-social-life-of-health-information-2011/ (accessed June 12, 2012).
53. Sadler, G.R., Thomas, A.G., Gebrekristos, B., Dhanjal, S.K. and Mugo, J. (2000), “Black cosmetologists promoting health program: pilot study outcomes”, Journal of Cancer Education, Vol. 15 No. 1, pp. 33-37.
54. Sanders Thompson, V.L., Talley, M., Caito, N. and Kreuter, M. (2009), “African American men’s perceptions of factors influencing health-information seeking”, American Journal of Men’s Health, Vol. 3 No. 6, pp. 6-15.
55. Selwyn, N. (2004), “Reconsidering political and popular understandings of the digital divide”, New Media and Society, Vol. 6 No. 3, pp. 341-362.
56. Sillence, E., Briggs, P., Harris, P.R. and Fishwick, L. (2007), “How do patients evaluate and make use of online health information?”, Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 64 pp. 1853-1862.
57. Spink, A. and Cole, C. (2001), “Information and poverty: information-seeking channels used by African American low-income households”, Library and Information Science Research, Vol. 23 No. 1, pp. 45-65.
58. Srisuwan, P. and Barnes, S.J. (2008), “Predicting online channel use for an online and print magazine: a case study”, Internet Research, Vol. 18 No. 3, pp. 266-285.
59. Taylor, S.J. and Bogdan, R. (1998), Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods: A Guidebook and Resource, John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY.
60. Tuan, N. (2006), “Young African American Women and HIV”, Advocates for Youth Report.
61. Ulin, P.R., Robinson, E.T. and Tolley, E.E. (2005), Qualitative Methods in Public Health: A Field Guide for Applied Research, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA.
62. van Ryn, M. and Fu, S.S. (2003), “Paved with good intentions: do public health and human service providers contribute to racial/ethnic disparities in health?”, American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 93 No. 2, pp. 248-255.
63. Wang, E., Chen, L. and Tsai, B.K. (2012), “Investigating member commitment to virtual communities using an integrated perspective”, Internet Research, Vol. 22 No. 2, pp. 199-210.
64. Warren, J., Allen, M., Okuyemi, K., Kvasny, L. and Hecht, M. (2009), “Targeting single parents in preadolescent substance use prevention: internet characteristics and information relevance”, Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, Vol. 17 No. 4, pp. 400-412, available at: www.informaworld.com/10.1080/09687630802559083 (accessed March 19, 2012).
65. Warren, J., Kvasny, L., Hecht, M., Burgess, D., Ahluwalia, J. and Okuyemi, K. (2010), “Barriers, control and identity in health information seeking among African American women”, Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice, Vol. 3 No. 3, pp. 68-90.
66. Washington, H. (2007), Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, Double Day, New York, NY.
67. Wingood, G., Hunter-Gamble, D. and DiClemente, R. (1993), “A pilot study of sexual communication and negotiation among young African American women: implications for HIV prevention”, The Journal of Black Psychology, Vol. 19 No. 2, pp. 190-203.
68. Yin, R.K. (1989), Case Study Research: Design and Methods, Sage Publications, Newbury Park, CA.