Most widely used search engine that searches full text but may not return the most recent publications
What is Google?
100
Branch of informatics that studies, develops, and implements computer and telecommunication applications and interfaces designed to be used by health consumers
What is consumer health informatics?
100
These tools allow people to share information and provide support to each other
What are online communities?
100
Information about who sponsors the site, who the authors are, and contact information
What is authorship?
100
Key concepts of a theory
What are constructs?
200
Database of medical and health journal articles from National Library of Medicine
What is PubMed
200
24/7 availability, fast, private, reduced geographical and travel barriers, large reach
What are advantages of online health?
200
A component of all e-health tools
What is health information?
200
Determining how recently the information was written and/or updated
What is currency?
200
Because interventions based on theory had better results and those that used more theoretical constructs had better results
What are reasons for creating theory-based interventions?
300
Use of these helps you search more effectively
What are Boolean Operators?
300
Variable quality, privacy concerns, fees, takes time, no accountability
What are disadvantages of going online for health information?
300
These help people make decisions, usually about which treatment to have.
What are decision support tools?
300
Having the HON symbol or another quality indicator
What is Accreditation?
300
When the "cons" of a behavior are high and self-efficacy for engaging in a behavior are low?
What are the early stages of the TTM (precontemplation, contemplation, or preparation)?
400
These limit the number of searches results returned
What are "AND," "NOT," and use of quotation marks to group terms.
400
These types of e-health tools are used to help achieve or maintain a healthy behavior
What are behavior change/health self-management tools?
400
These include electronic health records and email with your physician
What are healthcare tools?
400
What the HON code does not guarantee?
What is information accuracy?
400
The stages when a person is actively engaging in a behavior or has done so for a prolonged period of time
What are Action and Maintenance?
500
Strategies to return a greater number of search results
What are "OR" and truncation?
500
These tools are used by people who already have a disease to manage their disease
What are disease management tools?
500
Starts off high and then drops off over time
What is the pattern of use for online behavior change websites?
500
Determining whether a website makes claims that are too good to be true