Young Ji Lee|Bernadette Boden?Albala|Elaine Larson|Adam B. Wilcox|Suzanne Bakken
Online Health Information Seeking Behaviors of Hispanics in New York City: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study
Northwestern University|New York University|Columbia University|Intermountain Healthcare|Columbia University
background emergence internet increased access health information facilitate active individual engagement health care decision making hispanics fastestgrowing minority group united states also underserved terms access online health information growing body literature examined correlates online health information seeking behaviors hisbs studies included hispanics objective specific aim descriptive correlational study examine factors associated hisbs hispanics methods study sample n4070 recruited five postal zip codes northern manhattan washington heights inwood informatics infrastructure comparative effectiveness research project survey data collected via interview bilingual community health workers community center households community settings data analyzed using bivariate analyses logistic regression results among individual respondents online hisbs significantly associated higher education 303 95 ci 215429 ppp003 online hisbs household members significantly associated respondent factors female gender 160 95 ci 122210 p001 younger 075 95 ci 062090 p002 married 136 95 ci 109171 p007 higher education 180 95 ci 14042316 ppp001 conclusions largescale community survey identified factors associated online hisbs among hispanics merit closer examination enhance online hisbs among hispanics health care providers policy makers need understand cultural context hispanic population results study provide foundation development informaticsbased interventions improve health hispanics united states