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Study on the Health Communication Behavior of Chinese Doctors on Network Media----Based on the Empirical Investigation of 119 Chinese Doctors

Hu, F.·Wang, P.
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IntroductionIn order to reduce the perceived risk of medical decision-making, Chinese patients tend to spend time and energy to understand relevant medical knowledge. After comparing online reviews and news reports of Chinese doctors, they carefully choose doctors. It is precisely because of the patients treatment habits that many doctors have spread health information through their own microblogs, WeChat public numbers, websites, videos and other means. Therefore, doctors speeches in cyberspace often play a dominant role in the development of health communication and guide the risk communication. This paper studies the influencing factors of Chinese doctors healthy communication behavior in online media. This has positive reference value for improving the health literacy of the whole people and the crisis management and guidance of public events.\n\nMethodsIn order to maximize the representativeness of the sample, the universality of the problems reflected in the survey data, and the adaptability of the purpose and method of the research questions, this paper adopts a multi-stage sampling method. In each region, a medical institution is selected according to a simple random sampling method in three types of hospitals: public hospitals, social hospitals, and primary medical institutions. A total of 10-11 medical institutions were selected in each region, and a total of 32 hospitals were selected from the three regions. According to the PPS sampling method, a corresponding number of working doctors are drawn in each hospital. Statistical analysis of the data was performed using SPSS 21.0 statistical software.\n\nAnalysisThe study found that doctors transmission of health-related content on online media is still at a lower level of involvement, and the frequency of transmission is significantly lower than the general level. There are also significant differences in the health transmission of doctors from different backgrounds on the Internet. In the context of control hospital background, continue to examine the impact of Media usage and occupational psychology on doctors dissemination of health-related content. The results show that the influence of Media usage on the health communication behavior of doctors on the Internet media, to a certain extent, verifies that the rise of online media plays a significant role in putting doctors into health science. This also shows that the media has fostered the doctors communication behavior. In addition, the higher the self-efficacy of doctors in the workplace, the more cautious they are about their words and deeds, the more they care about the impact of their speech on interpersonal communication.

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Hu, F., Wang, P.. 2019-03-25. Study on the Health Communication Behavior of Chinese Doctors on Network Media----Based on the Empirical Investigation of 119 Chinese Doctors. https://doi.org/10.1101/588863

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