ONLINE HEALTH INFORMATION SEEKING DURING ADOLESCENCE: A QUANTITATIVE STUDY REGARDING ROMANIAN TEENAGERS

Alina Catalina Duduciuc

doi:10.29358/sceco.v0i22.329

ONLINE HEALTH INFORMATION SEEKING DURING ADOLESCENCE: A QUANTITATIVE STUDY REGARDING ROMANIAN TEENAGERS

Authors

Alina Catalina Duduciuc National University of Political Studies and Public Administration Faculty of Communciation and Public Relations

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29358/sceco.v0i22.329

Keywords:

Internet, ICTs, health, teenagers

Abstract

How Internet is used by individuals from different age groups to keep their health in check has become one of the major issue of both academic researchers and policy makers. The topic derives mainly from 2000-2014 data which converge towards an Internet accessing pattern as source of information regarding health. Previous studies showed that teenagers are the main consumers of the Internet and they often start surfing for online health concerns on social media (Facebook, Twitter) and popular engines (Google, Yahoo). The current paper describes how Romanian teenagers (N=161, aged 14-19) browse for online topics to keep their health in check. Based on a questionnaire, the data revealed that the Internet is used to a certain extent by more than a third of the respondents for health topics and over half of them consider that the health related information helped them to achieve a good trim. Overall, the research outcomes showed that the adolescents seem less interested in using Internet for health information and sometimes challenge the credibility of online health content.

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Author Biography

Alina Catalina Duduciuc, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration Faculty of Communciation and Public Relations

Alina Duduciuc, PhD, is currently lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Communication and Public Relations within the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, where she teaches Social Psychology and Social Psychology of Advertising at BA and MA levels. Since she has received her PhD in Sociology at the University of Bucharest (2010), her research interests revolve around analyzing the way different age groups use and adopt information and communication technologies (ICTs). She is also intersted in social psychology applied to advertising. Recent books: [Duduciuc, A., Ivan, L., Chelcea, S. (2013). Social Psychology: The Study Human Interactions; Duduciuc, A. (2012). Sociology of Fashion: Clothing Style and Social Desirability; Ivan, L. & Duduciuc. A. (2011) (eds.). Nonverbal Communication and Social Construction]

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Published

29.12.2015

Issue

No. 22 (2015)

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Duduciuc, A. C. (2015). ONLINE HEALTH INFORMATION SEEKING DURING ADOLESCENCE: A QUANTITATIVE STUDY REGARDING ROMANIAN TEENAGERS. Studies and Scientific Researches. Economics Edition, 22. https://doi.org/10.29358/sceco.v0i22.329