Older adults' online health information-seeking and diagnostic reasoning: a mixed methods investigation
Prior research has indicated that laypeople construct mental representations of physical symptoms in order to attempt to understand illness (e.g., Leventhal, Safer, Panagis, 1983; Leventhal & Contrada, 1987; Lau, Bernard, & Hartman, 1989). These "illness representations" are influe...
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University of Iowa
2012
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| Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/3343 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3401&context=etd |