The Relationship Between Health Information Seeking and Community Participation: The Roles of Health Information Orientation and Efficacy
Author(s): Basu A (Basu, Ambar)1, Dutta MJ (Dutta, Mohan Jyoti)1
Source: HEALTH COMMUNICATION Volume: 23 Issue: 1 Pages: 70-79 Published: JAN-FEB 2008
Health Information Orientation(p72-73)
Health orientation, or the way individual attitudes and motivations are orientated to a healthy way of life, has emerged as a critical concept in health behavior enumeration (Dutta-Bergman, 2004c).
健康導向或個人對健康的態度和動機導致一個健康的生活方式，已經被列為健康行為的重要概念（杜塔-伯格曼，2004年c）。
Dutta-Bergman (2004c) listed health information orientation as a primary measure of health orientation.
杜塔-伯格曼（2004年c）以健康資訊導向作為衡量健康導向的指標。
He states: “health information orientation refers to the extent to which the individual is willing to look for health information” (p. 275).
他指出：“健康資訊導向，是指個人想要尋找健康資訊的程度”（第275頁）。
Extrapolating from Petty and Cacioppo (1986), it may be argued that a high level of health-information orientation suggests the willingness to look for issues related to health and to find out ways to educate oneself about these issues, including the consumption of those communication channels that serve as potential sources of information regarding the issue.
從 Petty和卡西奧普（1986）推斷，它可能會認為一個高層次的健康資訊導向的人是願意尋找有關健康的議題，並找出方法來教育自己，包括對這些通信消費渠道，作為這些議題潛在的資訊來源。
In this article, we argue that an individual who is health information oriented will be motivated enough to seek out health information and seek out ways to use the information gathered to practice healthy behaviors, thus actively participating in communitybased networks.
在這篇文章中，我們認為，一個具有健康資訊導向的人將有足夠的動機去尋找健康資訊和尋求如何利用這些資訊收集到實踐健康行為，從而積極參與以社區網絡。
In addition, a healthy citizen who is responsible enough to take care of his or her own health will, in all probability, make an effort to mobilize community action in not only seeking out and providing health information, but also spreading the good word about healthy practices through community networks.
此外，一個健康的公民，有照顧他或她自己的責任，在所有的可能性，作出努力，動員社區行動不僅在尋求和提供衛生信息，而且傳播關於健康好話通過社區網絡的做法。
It is this Tocquevillean (1948) sense of an intertwined web of individual and social responsibility that helps to increase community participation, and contributes to community health outcomes.
正是這種 Tocquevillean（1948）意義上的相互交織的網絡個人和社會責任，有助於增加社區參與，並促進社區衛生成果。
The high level of responsibility among the health information oriented segment is most likely to permeate from the domain of the individual to the community.
具有高層次健康導向的人可能擔負起從個人到社區散播健康資訊的責任。
An actively health information seeking individual will influence others in the community to engage in similar healthy behavior because the ability of an individual to remain healthy is dependent, to a large extent, on the health of the community
that surrounds the individual.
一個積極尋求健康資訊的個人將影響社區中其他人，進行類似的健康的行為，因為一個人保持健康的能力是依賴個人所環繞的社區健康。
This symbiotic relationship that stems from a sense of participatory responsibility lends itself to the link between health information orientation, community participation, and health outcomes.
這種共生關係，源於參與的責任意識，而導致健康資訊導向、社區參與和健康結果之間的連結。
Hence, we hypothesize:
H1: Community participation will be positively correlated with health information orientation.
因此，我們假設：
H1：社區的參與與健康資訊導向成正相關。
