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Zoom on surveys
General statistics:
The
Internet World Stats:
This website gives
worldwide
statistics about the world's Internet usage. For example, one can see
that while Internet use increased by 380% between 2000 and 2009, only
about 25.6% of the worldwide population have access to the Internet.
Internet Health Surveys:
October 2010 : Do
you manage your
health with your smartphone?
Title
: Mobile
Health 2010
This
survey has been realised by the Pew and Internetin 2010. The results in
this report are based on data
from telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research
Associates International between August 9 and September 13, 2010, among
a sample of 3,001 adults, age 18 and older. Interviews were
conducted in English and Spanish and included 1,000 cell phone
interviews. For results based on the total sample, one can
say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to sampling is plus
or minus 2.5 percentage points. For results based on Internet
users (n=2,065) and cell phone users (n=2,485), the margin of
sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
The online
health-information environment is
going mobile. 17% of cell phone users have used their phone to look up
health or medical information and 9% have software applications or
"apps" on their phones that help them track or manage their health.
More
than 300'000 health applications have been found (mainly iphone and
Android).
In addition, 35% of U.S.
adults have software applications
or "apps" on their phones (but only one-in-four adults actually use
them).
Summary:
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1767/mobile-phone-search-health-medical-information
May
6th 2010 : Towards integrating the Internet better in the
patient-physician relationship (in french)
Title
: Les
conséquences des usages d'Internet sur les relations
patients médecins
This
survey was conducted by the Conseil National de l'Ordre des
Médecins of France. They examined the use of the Internet in
France and its impact on the evolution of the patient-physician
relationship.
It shows that among other things, among the French people, physicians
are considered to be the most reliable source of health information.
However, 71% of them use the Internet to search for health information.
It also appears that
among these 71%, 28%
know that the sites they visit are certified, and among the 28%, 12%
consult only
certified websites.
March 24th 2010: The
Pew Internet
& American Life Project
Title:
Chronic
Disease and the Internet
Adults
living with chronic disease are disproportionately offline in an online
world. Recent survey data from the Pew Internet Project and the
California HealthCare Foundation show that adults living with chronic
disease are significantly less likely than healthy adults to have
access to the internet:
•
81% of adults reporting no chronic diseases go online.
• 62% of adults living with one or more chronic disease go
online.
People managing multiple diseases are less likely to have internet
access:
• 68% of adults reporting one chronic disease go online.
• 52% of adults living with two or more chronic diseases go
online.
March 4th 2010: The Pew Internet
& American Life Project
Title:
All
together now : the Internet does not replace health professionals
Personal
reflections by Susannah Fox on an article published in New
England Medicine on March 4, 2010.
March
3th 2010: The Pew Internet & American Life Project
Title : People
still trust their doctors
rather than the
Internet
Personal
reflections by Susannah Fox on an article published in New
England Medicine on March 4, 2010.
September
2009 : Israeli study on the relationship of physicians with
e-patients
Title :
The
e-Patient: A Survey of Israeli Primary C are Physicians’
Responses to
Patients’ Use of Online Information during the
Consultation
More
information
| Summary:
This survey, published in 2009 by the Israel Medical Association
Journal (IMAJ), explores the behavior of primary care physicians and
their patients who go online to improve their knowledge about health
care. As it seems that this practice is well-accepted by these care
providers globally, 81% of doctors responded positively when health
data from the Internet were presented by patients. However, 4% said
they were annoyed, 23% expressed discomfort in such situation, and 13%
found them irrelevant. |
June
2009 :
The Pew
Internet & American Life Project
Title :
The social
life of health information
This
survey was provided by The Pew Internet & American Life Project
in 2009, which analyzes the behavior of American people when seeking
health information on the Internet in 2009.
More
information
Objectives:
This study focuses on analyzing the behavior of Americans concerning
their search for health information on the Internet in 2009. Many
points are addressed in this study.
Conclusions :
The results show that 74% of American adults have Internet access (all
access points combined) and 61% of adults do health research on the
Internet.
It also shows that majority of people continue to seek health
information with health professionals (86%), but they complement the
information obtained through research on the Internet (57%).
Queries regarding well being (fitness, diet, sports, ...) have
increased by 88%, going from 21% in 2002 to 38% in 2009. Searches are
also often focused on finding specific symptoms (36%), medical
treatment (27%), alternative medicine (16%) or depression (12%).
In addition more than half of requests (52%) on medical information are
for family members or for a friend. |
November
2008 : Microsoft study
Title :
Cyberchondria:
Studies of the Escalation of Medical
Concerns in Web Search
This
study provides evidences that Internet search engines promote
cyberchondria. Microsoft defines cyberchondria
as a hightened level of anxiety due to health research on the Internet.
August
2008: The Pew Internet & American Life
Project
Title :
The engages
e-patient population
Discusses
several statisticical data on health research on the Internet. It shows
that the Internet connection speed is a promoting factor in Internet
health research.
2006-2007
: WHIST survey : Survey conducted by INSERM (In French)
Title
: Enquête
web sur les
habitudes de recherche d’informations liées
à la santé sur Internet
This
study shows the social stratification of Internet use for research on
medical and health information and its implications on the management
of their health and the care utilization.
The typical profile of a health information searcher, as observed by
other studies, is checked. The typical profile is that of a young or
middle aged woman, with a high level of education, employed, living
with a partner, having a great Internet experience and facing
a health problem.
The results also indicate differing use of the Internet with regards to
health between health professionals and the general public.
2005-2007: European survey on
health
Internet
Title
: eHealth trends
across Europe 2005-2007
Survey conducted in
collaboration with
the WHO. It was conducted by telephone by a Norwegian telemedicine
organization with a representative panel of people in seven European
countries. This survey was conducted twice with eighteen month
intervals to study the evolution of the usage of the Internet with
regards to health.
More
information
Objective:
Studying the development of Internet use to seek health information in
general, but also by country of origin. The countries studied are:
Norway, Denmark and Germany for north and central Europe, Latvia and
Poland for Eastern Europe, Greece and Portugal in Southern Europe.
Results:
In total, 7,934 interviews were conducted in 2005 and 7022 interviews
in 2007. The number of users of Internet for health purposes increased
from 44% in 2005 to 54% in 2007 on all interviews. Looking only among
Internet users, 71% sought health information, and 83% did in 2007.
Conclusions:
The use of the Internet for health purposes has increased in Europe.
However this variation depends on the country. |
Canadian
study on Internet utilization in 2005 and 2007
Results of
the 2005's survey:
Survey conducted in
collaboration with
the WHO. It was conducted by telephone by a Norwegian telemedicine
organization with a representative panel of people in seven European
countries. This survey was conducted twice with eighteen month
intervals to study the evolution of the usage of the Internet with
regards to health.
More
information
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Objectives:
To study the use of the Internet in Canada, and the influence of this
on the economy.
Results:
This study showed that age, sex, educational level, economic status, as
well as the economic level of a province plays an important role in
having access to the Internet.
Among
all Internet users, 42% of men and 56.4% of women have researched the
Internet for health; totaling to 49.5% of the population surveyed.
Women do more research related to health than men. Among these
investigations, the demand for diagnosis or treatment of specific
diseases is the most common type of query (61.5%). Following this,
there are the analysis of specific symptoms (44.1%), questions on
lifestyle (44%) and the effects of drugs (40.5%).
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Results of
the 2007’s survey
There
are no results about the use of Internet for health searches
in this report. The 2007 survey focuses on Internet use in different
regions of Quebec. The results presented do not show the types of
search queries conducted by e-patients. There are about two years
between the end of the study and publication of results.
Link to the
questionnaire 2007’s canadian survey
Harris Interactive Inc surveys:
Since
2002, Harris Interactive has defined cyberchondria in terms of the use
of the Internet to search for health information.
Harris Interactive has conducted several surveys about the Internet to
understand the behavior of Internet users regarding Internet use and
search for medical information. More studies are available here.
Up-to-date information:
Health 2.0 news
Find up-to-date health information on this
site!
Books:
2007: E-patient,
how they can
help us heal health care
Autors
: Tom Ferguson, MD (et le
e-patient schoolar working group)
The
foreword was written by Rainie and Susannah Fox from The Pew Internet
& American Life Project. It presents the change in the
relationship between patients and their care providers with the arrival
of the 'e-patient' concept and increase of health care information on
the Internet.
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