A STUDY ON THE WOMENS USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA BREAST CANCERRELATED HEALTH INFORMATIONSEEKING BEHAVIOR UTILITY OF INFORMATION CHANNEL AS A MEDIATOR

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gmsr.2020(V-III).15      10.31703/gmsr.2020(V-III).15      Published : Sep 2020
Authored by : Tehmina Ashfaq Qazi , Noor Hayat

15 Pages : 137-145

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  • Agha, N., & Tarar, M. G. (2019). Battling Breast Cancer: Women's Narratives of Struggle, Family Support and Survival from Rural Sindh, Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan, 26(1), 21-40.
  • Akakandelwa, A., & Walubita, G. (2017). Students' Social Media Use and its Perceived Impact on their Social Life: A Case Study of the University of Zambia. The International Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Research, 5(3), 1-14.
  • Arshad, S., ur Rehman, M., Abid, F., Yasir, S., Qayyum, M., Ashiq, K., & Ashiq, S. (2019). Current situation of breast cancer in Pakistan with the available interventions. Int J Biosci, 11(6), 232-240.
  • Banning, M., Hassan, M., Faisal, S., & Hafeez, H. (2010). Cultural interrelationships and the lived experience of Pakistani breast cancer patients. European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 14(4), 304-309.
  • Banning, M., Hassan, M., Hafeez, H., Faisal, S., & Zafar, A. (2009). The impact of culture, sociological and psychological issues on Muslim breast cancer patients in Pakistan. The Breast, 18, S69.
  • Basnyat, I., Nekmat, E., Jiang, S., & Lin, J. (2018). Applying the modified comprehensive model of information seeking to online health information seeking in the context of India. Journal of health communication, 23(6), 563-572. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2018.1493058
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  • Choudhry, U. K. (1998). Health promotion among immigrant women from India living in Canada. Image: The Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 30(3), 269-274.
  • Cline, R. J., & Haynes, K. M. (2001). Consumer health information seeking on the internet: the state of the art. Health education research, 16(6), 671-692.
  • Cotten, S. R., & Gupta, S. S. (2004). Characteristics of online and offline health information seekers and factors that discriminate between them. Social science & medicine, 59(9), 1795-1806.
  • Goffman, E. (1967). On face-work. Interaction ritual, 5-45.
  • Grasso, K. L., & Bell, R. A. (2015). Understanding health information seeking: A test of the risk perception attitude framework. Journal of Health Communication, 20(12), 1406-1414.
  • Gulzar, F., Akhtar, M. S., Sadiq, R., Bashir, S., Jamil, S., & Baig, S. M. (2019). Identifying the reasons for delayed presentation of Pakistani breast cancer patients at a tertiary care hospital. Cancer management and research, 11, 1087.
  • Han, J. Y., Wise, M., Kim, E., Pingree, R., Hawkins, R. P., Pingree, S. & Gustafson, D. H. (2010). Factors associated with use of interactive cancer communication system: an application of the comprehensive model of information seeking. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 15(3), 367-388. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2010.01508.x.
  • Hartoonian, N., Ormseth, S. R., Hanson, E. R., Bantum, E. O., & Owen, J. E. (2014). Information- seeking in cancer survivors: application of the Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking to HINTS 2007 data. Journal of Health Communication, 19(11), 1308-1325.
  • Ibinaiye, I. D. (2021). Applying Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking to Hepatitis B and C Patients' Information Seeking in the South African Context: A Scoping Review.
  • Mansoor, T., & Abid, S. (2020). Negotiating femininity, motherhood and beauty: Experiences of Pakistani women breast cancer patients. Asian Journal of Women's Studies, 26(4), 485-502.
  • Mansoor, T., Mansoor, S., & bin Zubair, U. (2020). 'Surviving COVID-19': Illness Narratives of Patients and Family Members in Pakistan. Annals of King Edward Medical University, 26(Special Issue), 157-164.
  • Maqsood, B., Zeeshan, M. M., Rehman, F., Aslam, F., Zafar, A., Syed, B. & Imam, S. Z. (2009). Students' corner breast cancer screening practices and awareness in women admitted to a Tertiary Care Hospital of Lahore, Pakistan. JPMA, 59(418).
  • Marlow, L. A., & Wardle, J. (2014). Development of a scale to assess cancer stigma in the non-patient population. BMC cancer, 14(1), 1-12.
  • Muhamad, M., Afshari, M., & Mohamed, N. A. (2011). Internet Use and Breast Cancer Survivors. Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology-TOJET, 10(4), 241-247.
  • Mukhtar, S. (2015). Effectiveness of Pink ribbon campaign in Pakistan. New Horizons, 9(2), 79.
  • Naqvi, A. A., Zehra, F., Ahmad, R., & Ahmad, N. (2016). Developing a research instrument to document awareness, knowledge, and attitudes regarding breast cancer and early detection techniques for Pakistani women: the Breast Cancer Inventory (BCI). Diseases, 4(4), 37.
  • Naz, N., Khanum, S., Dal Sasso, G. T. M., & de Souza, M. D. L. (2016). Women's Views on Handling and Managing Their Breast Cancer in Pakistan: A Qualitative Study. Diseases, 4(2), 17.
  • Raishidi, A., & Rajaram, S. S. (2000). Middle Eastern Islamic women and breast self- examination. Cancer Nursing, 23(1), 64-69.
  • Rees, C. E., & Bath, P. A. (2001). Information-seeking behaviors of women with breast cancer. In Oncology nursing forum 28(5).
  • Reifegerste, D., Blech, S., & Dechant, P. (2020). Understanding Information Seeking about the Health of Others: Applying the Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking to Proxy Online Health Information Seeking. Journal of health communication, 25(2), 126-135. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2020.1716280.
  • Ruppel, E. K. (2016). Scanning health information sources: applying and extending the comprehensive model of information seeking. Journal of health communication, 21(2), 208-216.
  • Sharma, A., & Shukla, A. K. (2016). Impact of Social Messengers Especially WhatsApp on Youth-A Sociological Study. International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas in Education, 2(5), 367-375.
  • Somera, L. P., Lee, H. R., Badowski, G., & Cassel, K. (2016). Health information seeking, source trust, and culture: a comparative analysis of health information trends and needs between Guam and the United States. Journal of health communication, 21(4), 469-478. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2015.1095822.
  • Stevens, C. A., & Bhakta, M. G. (1995). Cardiac abnormalities in the Rubinstein‐Taybi syndrome. American journal of medical genetics, 59(3), 346-348.
  • The Pink Ribbon Pakistan. (2020), available at: https://www.pinkribbon.org.pk/
  • Timmers, C. F., & Glas, C. A. (2010). Developing scales for information‐seeking behaviour. Journal of Documentation.
  • Van Stee, S. K., & Yang, Q. (2018). Online Cancer Information Seeking: Applying and Extending the Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking. Health Communication, 33(12), 1583-1592.
  • Volkman, J. E., Luger, T. M., Harvey, K. L., Hogan, T. P., Shimada, S. L., Amante, D. & Houston, T. K. (2014). The National Cancer Institute's Health Information National Trends Survey [HINTS]: a national cross-sectional analysis of talking to your doctor and other healthcare providers for health information. BMC family practice, 15(1), 111.
  • Xiao, Z., Lee, J., Zeng, L., & Ni, L. (2020). Information seeking in the context of cigarette smoking: predictors from the Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking (CMIS). Psychology, health & medicine, 25(10), 1228-1246. https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2020.1728348

References

  • Agha, N., & Rind, R. D. (2021). Beliefs and perceptions about breast cancer among the people living in rural and less privileged areas in Sindh, Pakistan. Health Education.
  • Agha, N., & Tarar, M. G. (2019). Battling Breast Cancer: Women's Narratives of Struggle, Family Support and Survival from Rural Sindh, Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan, 26(1), 21-40.
  • Akakandelwa, A., & Walubita, G. (2017). Students' Social Media Use and its Perceived Impact on their Social Life: A Case Study of the University of Zambia. The International Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Research, 5(3), 1-14.
  • Arshad, S., ur Rehman, M., Abid, F., Yasir, S., Qayyum, M., Ashiq, K., & Ashiq, S. (2019). Current situation of breast cancer in Pakistan with the available interventions. Int J Biosci, 11(6), 232-240.
  • Banning, M., Hassan, M., Faisal, S., & Hafeez, H. (2010). Cultural interrelationships and the lived experience of Pakistani breast cancer patients. European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 14(4), 304-309.
  • Banning, M., Hassan, M., Hafeez, H., Faisal, S., & Zafar, A. (2009). The impact of culture, sociological and psychological issues on Muslim breast cancer patients in Pakistan. The Breast, 18, S69.
  • Basnyat, I., Nekmat, E., Jiang, S., & Lin, J. (2018). Applying the modified comprehensive model of information seeking to online health information seeking in the context of India. Journal of health communication, 23(6), 563-572. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2018.1493058
  • Brodie, M., Flournoy, R. E., Altman, D. E., Blendon, R. J., Benson, J. M., & Rosenbaum, M. D. (2000). Health Information, The Internet, And The Digital Divide: Despite recent improvements, Americans' access to the internet - and to the growing body of health information there - remains uneven. Health affairs, 19(6), 255-265. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.19.6.255.
  • Choudhry, U. K. (1998). Health promotion among immigrant women from India living in Canada. Image: The Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 30(3), 269-274.
  • Cline, R. J., & Haynes, K. M. (2001). Consumer health information seeking on the internet: the state of the art. Health education research, 16(6), 671-692.
  • Cotten, S. R., & Gupta, S. S. (2004). Characteristics of online and offline health information seekers and factors that discriminate between them. Social science & medicine, 59(9), 1795-1806.
  • Goffman, E. (1967). On face-work. Interaction ritual, 5-45.
  • Grasso, K. L., & Bell, R. A. (2015). Understanding health information seeking: A test of the risk perception attitude framework. Journal of Health Communication, 20(12), 1406-1414.
  • Gulzar, F., Akhtar, M. S., Sadiq, R., Bashir, S., Jamil, S., & Baig, S. M. (2019). Identifying the reasons for delayed presentation of Pakistani breast cancer patients at a tertiary care hospital. Cancer management and research, 11, 1087.
  • Han, J. Y., Wise, M., Kim, E., Pingree, R., Hawkins, R. P., Pingree, S. & Gustafson, D. H. (2010). Factors associated with use of interactive cancer communication system: an application of the comprehensive model of information seeking. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 15(3), 367-388. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2010.01508.x.
  • Hartoonian, N., Ormseth, S. R., Hanson, E. R., Bantum, E. O., & Owen, J. E. (2014). Information- seeking in cancer survivors: application of the Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking to HINTS 2007 data. Journal of Health Communication, 19(11), 1308-1325.
  • Ibinaiye, I. D. (2021). Applying Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking to Hepatitis B and C Patients' Information Seeking in the South African Context: A Scoping Review.
  • Mansoor, T., & Abid, S. (2020). Negotiating femininity, motherhood and beauty: Experiences of Pakistani women breast cancer patients. Asian Journal of Women's Studies, 26(4), 485-502.
  • Mansoor, T., Mansoor, S., & bin Zubair, U. (2020). 'Surviving COVID-19': Illness Narratives of Patients and Family Members in Pakistan. Annals of King Edward Medical University, 26(Special Issue), 157-164.
  • Maqsood, B., Zeeshan, M. M., Rehman, F., Aslam, F., Zafar, A., Syed, B. & Imam, S. Z. (2009). Students' corner breast cancer screening practices and awareness in women admitted to a Tertiary Care Hospital of Lahore, Pakistan. JPMA, 59(418).
  • Marlow, L. A., & Wardle, J. (2014). Development of a scale to assess cancer stigma in the non-patient population. BMC cancer, 14(1), 1-12.
  • Muhamad, M., Afshari, M., & Mohamed, N. A. (2011). Internet Use and Breast Cancer Survivors. Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology-TOJET, 10(4), 241-247.
  • Mukhtar, S. (2015). Effectiveness of Pink ribbon campaign in Pakistan. New Horizons, 9(2), 79.
  • Naqvi, A. A., Zehra, F., Ahmad, R., & Ahmad, N. (2016). Developing a research instrument to document awareness, knowledge, and attitudes regarding breast cancer and early detection techniques for Pakistani women: the Breast Cancer Inventory (BCI). Diseases, 4(4), 37.
  • Naz, N., Khanum, S., Dal Sasso, G. T. M., & de Souza, M. D. L. (2016). Women's Views on Handling and Managing Their Breast Cancer in Pakistan: A Qualitative Study. Diseases, 4(2), 17.
  • Raishidi, A., & Rajaram, S. S. (2000). Middle Eastern Islamic women and breast self- examination. Cancer Nursing, 23(1), 64-69.
  • Rees, C. E., & Bath, P. A. (2001). Information-seeking behaviors of women with breast cancer. In Oncology nursing forum 28(5).
  • Reifegerste, D., Blech, S., & Dechant, P. (2020). Understanding Information Seeking about the Health of Others: Applying the Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking to Proxy Online Health Information Seeking. Journal of health communication, 25(2), 126-135. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2020.1716280.
  • Ruppel, E. K. (2016). Scanning health information sources: applying and extending the comprehensive model of information seeking. Journal of health communication, 21(2), 208-216.
  • Sharma, A., & Shukla, A. K. (2016). Impact of Social Messengers Especially WhatsApp on Youth-A Sociological Study. International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas in Education, 2(5), 367-375.
  • Somera, L. P., Lee, H. R., Badowski, G., & Cassel, K. (2016). Health information seeking, source trust, and culture: a comparative analysis of health information trends and needs between Guam and the United States. Journal of health communication, 21(4), 469-478. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2015.1095822.
  • Stevens, C. A., & Bhakta, M. G. (1995). Cardiac abnormalities in the Rubinstein‐Taybi syndrome. American journal of medical genetics, 59(3), 346-348.
  • The Pink Ribbon Pakistan. (2020), available at: https://www.pinkribbon.org.pk/
  • Timmers, C. F., & Glas, C. A. (2010). Developing scales for information‐seeking behaviour. Journal of Documentation.
  • Van Stee, S. K., & Yang, Q. (2018). Online Cancer Information Seeking: Applying and Extending the Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking. Health Communication, 33(12), 1583-1592.
  • Volkman, J. E., Luger, T. M., Harvey, K. L., Hogan, T. P., Shimada, S. L., Amante, D. & Houston, T. K. (2014). The National Cancer Institute's Health Information National Trends Survey [HINTS]: a national cross-sectional analysis of talking to your doctor and other healthcare providers for health information. BMC family practice, 15(1), 111.
  • Xiao, Z., Lee, J., Zeng, L., & Ni, L. (2020). Information seeking in the context of cigarette smoking: predictors from the Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking (CMIS). Psychology, health & medicine, 25(10), 1228-1246. https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2020.1728348

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