Factors Influencing Physicians' Continuous Blogging: A Survey.
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ABSTRACT: Background
Health information can be more easily transmitted and diffused through the Internet, but questionable online health information often misinforms patients. Physicians have a duty to inform patients how to achieve positive health outcomes. Many physicians often write blogs to provide patients with the right health information. However, most articles available on this subject only describe the blog phenomena without providing a theoretical background and an empirical analysis of doctors using blogs.Methods
This study based on social cognitive theory (SCT) explores the factors influencing physicians' intention of continuously blogging. A total of 887 physician bloggers were invited to participate in an online survey and 128 valid responses were received.Results
The SCT was proven to be useful in explaining 36.8% of the variation in physicians' continuous intention to blog.Conclusions
We provide references for platform developers with different strategies to motivate doctors to blog, and the implications and limitations of this study are discussed.
SUBMITTER: Chang IC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8394209 | biostudies-literature |
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