Digital Information Sources Research Articles

Parental digital health information seeking behavior in Switzerland: a cross-sectional study

BackgroundDigital media are increasingly abundant and used to seek health information, however, to date very little is known on parents’ seeking behavior in the context of child’s health and development outside English-speaking and Scandinavian countries. By investigating the prevalence of, and reasons for use, we studied parents’ perception of the Internet as a resource for improving their health-related knowledge.MethodsThe survey was conducted in a random sample of 2573 Swiss-German parents with at least one child aged less-than 2 years old. Parents received a mailed invitation to fill in an online questionnaire. Two reminders were sent, the later with a paper questionnaire attached. The questionnaire included questions on use of print, digital, and personal information sources, as well as different information situations: general health and development or illness. We ran descriptive analyses on information seeking behavior, type of digital media used, reasons of use. We also conducted regression analyses to explore factors associated with parental perceptions with regard to the Internet’s utility as a source for health information.ResultsA total of 769 questionnaires were returned (response rate 30%). Nearly all parents (91%) used digital media for seeking information on their child’s health and development, and the main reason for use was indicated as being the 24/7 availability of information. Search engines (55%) and webpages for parents (47%) were by far the most frequently used digital media. Generally, the internet is perceived as a good resource, especially by fathers (OR = 1.80, 95% CI: 1.03–3.16). However, a large percentage of parents are skeptical about the correctness of online info (91%), are unsure about their interpretive understanding, and ask for guidance from their pediatrician (67%).ConclusionsThe Internet has become a highly frequented source of information for Swiss-German parents on children’s health with largely valuable perceptions of its utility. Digital media are used in addition to and not in replacement of print media and personal contacts. Increasing parental guidance by health and public health professionals could improve parental digital health utilization and empower parents in the new role they adopt.

YouTube como fonte informativa sobre bloqueios do plexo braquial: avaliação de conteúdo e valor educativo

Background and objectivesYouTube, the most popular video‐sharing website, contains a significant number of medical videos including brachial plexus nerve blocks. Despite the widespread use of this platform as a medical information source, there is no regulation for the quality or content of the videos. The goals of this study are to evaluate the content of material on YouTube relevant to performance of brachial plexus nerve blocks and its quality as a visual digital information source. MethodsThe YouTube search was performed using keywords associated with brachial plexus nerve blocks and the final 86 videos out of 374 were included in the watch list. The assessors scored the videos separately according to the Questionnaires. Questionnaire‐1 (Q1) was prepared according to the ASRA guidelines/Miller's Anesthesia as a reference text book, and Questionnaire‐2 (Q2) was formulated using a modification of the criteria in Evaluation of Video Media Guidelines. Results72 ultrasound‐guided and 14 nerve‐stimulator guided block videos were evaluated. In Q1, for ultrasound‐guided videos, the least scores were for Q1–5 (1.38) regarding the complications, and the greatest scores were for Q1–13 (3.30) regarding the sono‐anatomic image. In videos with nerve stimulator, the lowest and the highest scores were given for Q1–7 (1.64) regarding the equipment and Q1–12 (3.60) regarding the explanation of muscle twitches respectively. In Q2, 65.3% of ultrasound‐guided and 42.8% of blocks with nerve‐stimulator had worse than satisfactory scores. ConclusionsThe majority of the videos examined for this study lack the comprehensive approach necessary to safely guide someone seeking information about brachial plexus nerve blocks.

ПРОБЛЕМИ ВИЗНАЧЕННЯ ДОПУСТИМОСТІ І НАЛЕЖНОСТІ ЦИФРОВИХ (ЕЛЕКТРОННИХ) ДОКАЗІВ У КРИМІНАЛЬНОМУ ПРОЦЕСІ

The development of information technology, along with its indisputable advantages, has brought to our lives a number of negative phenomena related to the illegal use of computers and telecommunications. However, the issue of using digital information as evidence in the criminal procedural legislation of Ukraine remains almost unsettled, in particular, the place of digital evidence in the system of procedural sources of evidence (digital evidence is difficult to unambiguously attribute to material evidence or documents) remains unclear. Criminal proceedings raise problems regarding the correct assessment of digital (electronic) evidence for their identity and admissibility, which certainly does not contribute to the effective use of digital technologies and sources of information in national proceedings. The purpose of the article is to research the problematic issues of determining the appropriateness and admissibility of digital (electronic) evidence during criminal proceedings, as well as to identify and disclose individual principles for their proper procedural evaluation. The research deals with the current state of theoretical studies of the issue of the appropriateness and admissibility of digital evidence both in Ukrainian criminal procedure science and abroad. The peculiarities of the requirements for the assessment of traditional evidence and digital evidence in criminal proceedings are analyzed. The author identifies the features of obtaining (collecting) digital evidence, given their intangible nature, with a view to their further positive evaluation by admissibility and appropriateness criteria. Taking into account the international experience, the author concludes that there is a need to distinguish separate principles of admissibility and availability for digital evidence, revealing their content. The urgent need to settle this issue, both at the legislative level and through appropriate judicial clarification, is substantiated. It is emphasized that in view of the specific nature of digital (electronic) evidence to ensure their authenticity and reliability in criminal proceedings is associated with the promptness of investigative actions, mandatory involvement of an expert, professional training of all subjects of evidence and steady adherence to recommendations for working with digital evidence.

Traditional Material Resources versus Digital Resources: The Choice of Information Sources of the FCMS Nursing Interns

This paper seeks to determine the choice of information source among FCMS nursing interns using the three-dimensional evaluation method namely; reliability, accessibly and purpose between the traditional and digital resources. Appropriate cross tabulations were used in the study to present the results using actual numbers, percentages and means. The results showed that there is no significant difference on the perception among respondents with regard to reliability, accessibility and purpose of the traditional and digital sources of information albeit that digital resource has just been recently introduced in the kingdom. Furthermore, the study also presented the respondent’s perception on the relationship of the two sources of information, specifically books and the Internet. The respondents mostly answered “highly accepted” as indicated by the high averages with a mean score nearly 5.

YouTube as an informational source for brachial plexus blocks: evaluation of content and educational value

Background and objectivesYouTube, the most popular video-sharing website, contains a significant number of medical videos including brachial plexus nerve blocks. Despite the widespread use of this platform as a medical information source, there is no regulation for the quality or content of the videos. The goals of this study are to evaluate the content of material on YouTube relevant to performance of brachial plexus nerve blocks and its quality as a visual digital information source. MethodsThe YouTube search was performed using keywords associated with brachial plexus nerve blocks and the final 86 videos out of 374 were included in the watch list. The assessors scored the videos separately according to the Questionnaires. Questionnaire-1 (Q1) was prepared according to the ASRA guidelines/Miller's Anesthesia as a reference text book, and Questionnaire-2 (Q2) was formulated using a modification of the criteria in Evaluation of Video Media Guidelines. Results72 ultrasound-guided and 14 nerve-stimulator guided block videos were evaluated. In Q1, for ultrasound-guided videos, the least scores were for Q1–5 (1.38) regarding the complications, and the greatest scores were for Q1–13 (3.30) regarding the sono-anatomic image. In videos with nerve stimulator, the lowest and the highest scores were given for Q1–7 (1.64) regarding the equipment and Q1–12 (3.60) regarding the explanation of muscle twitches respectively. In Q2, 65.3% of ultrasound-guided and 42.8% of blocks with nerve-stimulator had worse than satisfactory scores. ConclusionsThe majority of the videos examined for this study lack the comprehensive approach necessary to safely guide someone seeking information about brachial plexus nerve blocks.

‘Better understanding about what's going on’: young Australians’ use of digital technologies for health and fitness

ABSTRACTDigital technologies such as websites, online discussion forums, social media, content-sharing platforms, mobile apps and wearable devices are now available as a means for young people to learn about and promote their health, physical fitness and wellbeing. This article provides findings from a qualitative interview-based study of young Australians (aged 16–25 years) which explored their practices and understandings related to digital and non-digital sources of health and fitness information, advice and support. The interviews were analysed using a feminist new materialist theoretical framework, paying attention to the affordances, relational connections and affective forces gathering in human-nonhuman assemblages to create a set of key agential capacities. The agential capacities generated by the participants’ enactments of digital health included gaining a better knowledge of bodies, illness and healthcare and feeling more in control of health and wellbeing states. While the affordances of convenience, accessibility and detail and diversity of information offered by digital media and devices were valued by the participants, their accounts also highlighted the importance of face-to-face as well as online relationships and personal connections with other people for providing information and support, including family members and friends as well as medical professionals. The participants highly valued the agential capacity of digital technologies to generate detailed information about their bodies and health states and imagined new technologies that would be able to achieve even more detailed personalisation and customisation. However, they expressed little knowledge or concern about how their personal health data may be exploited by other actors or agencies. These insights go some way to recognising and acknowledging the embodied, affective and relational dimensions of living with, through and in the more-than-human worlds of digital health.

The River Network Toolkit – RivTool

Freshwater ecosystems are some of the most endangered environments in the world, being affected at multiple scales by the surrounding landscape and human activities therein. Effective research, conservation and management of these ecosystems requires integrating environmental and landscape data with hierarchic river networks by means of summarisation and synthesis of information for large and comprehensive areas at different scales (e.g. basin, sub‐basin, upstream drainage area). The dendritic nature of river networks, the need to tackle multiple scales and the ever‐growing sources of digital information (e.g. temperature or land use data grids) have increasingly led to hardly manageable processing time and stringent hardware requirements when integrating and working with this information. Here we present the River Network Toolkit (RivTool), a software that uses only tabular data to derive and calculate new information at multiple scales for riverine landscapes. It uses data from linear hierarchical river networks and the environmental/landscape data from their respective drainage areas. The software allows the acquisition of: 1) information that characterises river networks based on its topographic nature; 2) data obtained via mathematical calculations that account for the hierarchical and network nature of these systems; and 3) output information using different spatial data sources (e.g. climatic, land use, topologic) that result from up and downstream summarisations. This user‐friendly software considers two units of analysis (segment and sub‐basin) and is time effective even with large datasets. RivTool facilitates and reduces the time required for extracting information for freshwater ecosystems, and may thus contribute to increase scientific productivity, efficiency and accurateness when generating new or improving existing knowledge on large‐scale patterns and processes in river networks.

Information Needs, Usage and Motivation among Health Professionals at NGOs:A Study

We are living in a knowledge society, which is dominated by information in its most diverse formats. Internet and digital information sources have provided us with wealth of information in abundance. Information has gained importance in every sector of societies and health sector is not an exceptionand health professionals are increasingly finding that they have more information available than they can handle with confidence in their busy time schedules and the hardest task now is to actually locate the information required from the flood of information received. Major problem appears to be the difficulty of identifying and filtering the most useful, accurate and credible sources while searching online for health information. for conducting their activities related to human care, academic and research pursuits.

Raummuster: Demographischer Wandel und Klimawandel in deutschen Städten

Climate change and demographic change interact. Impacts in the context of climate change do not solely result from climate change and climate variability. They are a consequence of interrelations between climate and social change. Diverse settlement structures as well as a heterogeneous population lead towards small-scale sensitivities in the face of climate variability and extreme events. Who is sensitive, at what time and at what location become central questions of urban and spatial planning, aiming at sustainable cities and communities, good health and well-being as well as reduced inequalities. Demography is, next to politics, culture, economy, education or religion, the most substantial factor regarding these questions due to its profound knowledge and methodological toolbox on population dynamics. Therefore, the article aims at analysing the spatial patterns of demographic and climate change. The integrated assessment of climatic and demographic indicators reveals major spatial patterns for Germany: urban growth in warmer climate types as well as dismantling and vacancy in drier climate types. In both cases, an extreme change in population volume and/or structure takes place parallel to an increasing climatic exposure. This leads towards growing adaption needs. Planning science and practice needs to revise its taboos (manage retreat) and premises (internal before external development) as well as integrate new findings (adaptive strategies) and technical innovations (digital information sources).

Wrapped in the Flag: Food Choice and Country of Origin Labelling

SummaryThe growth in country of origin (COO) food labelling is part of the ongoing proliferation of information provided to consumers. However, the implementation of COO labelling means that consumers can sometimes end up more confused than informed. This concern raises questions regarding how COO information should be provided, along with what information needs to be given to consumers. We begin by discussing what COO actually indicates. This is followed by a review of the evidence on consumer use of COO information. Then turning to current policy issues, we draw attention to how COO information can be used to promote consumer ethnocentrism as well as inadvertently causing trade tensions both between trading countries and within the EU single market. We then consider how developments in information technology like blockchains or smart labels might change how COO information is collated and used. In particular, we observe that any increase in the use of this technology will depend on whether or not consumers trust these new digital sources of information. Potentially, the convenience with which COO information could be verified by consumers using information technology is a logical development given consumer demands for convenience in general.

Translating the news in China: the evolution of Reference News and its future in a digital news landscape

Reference News is a prominent, Mainland Chinese newspaper that, for many decades, has translated and published foreign language news reports for its sizable readership. Over the course of its long history, both as a result of government directives and in response to the changing nature of Chinese society, the newspaper has undergone successive transformations. This study charts these changes, documenting Reference News’ earlier roles as intra-party intelligence bulletin and as a tool of ideological inculcation before analysing the newspaper’s later struggles to adapt to a pluralised and commercialised media market. This article argues that the more recent challenges posed by the increasing popularity of digital sources of news information has meant that despite a robust strategy designed to embrace the opportunities of the digital era, the future of Reference News as a successful and influential publisher in the digital realm is by no means certain.

The impact of media type on shared decision processes in third-age populations

PurposeTo examine the relationship between the media, through which medical information was made available (e.g. digital versus printed), and the patients’ desire to play an active part in a medical decision in an SDM or an ISDM-based process. The goal of this research was to expand knowledge concerning social and personal factors that affect and explain patients’ willingness to participate in the process. MethodsA questionnaire was distributed in this empirical study of 103 third-age participants. A theoretical model formed the basis for the study and utilized a variety of factors from technology acceptance, as well as personal and environmental influences to investigate the likelihood of subjects preferring a certain decision-making approach. The research population included men and women aged 65 or older who resided in five assisted living facilities in Israel. The sample was split randomly into 2 groups. One group used digital information and the other print. A path analysis was conducted, using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) in AMOS SPSS, to determine the influence of the information mode of presentation on the patient’s choice of the SDM or ISDM model. ResultsWhen digital media was accessible, the information’s perceived usefulness (PU) led participants to choose an ISDM-based process; this was not true with printed information. When information was available online, higher self-efficacy (SE) led participants to prefer an SDM-based process. When the information was available in print, a direct positive influence was found on the participant’s choice of SDM, while a direct negative influence was found on their choice of an ISDM-based process. PU was found to be affected by external peer influences, particularly when resources were made available in print. This meant that digital resources tended to be accepted at face value more readily. Cognitive absorption had a positive effect on the research variables only when the information was available digitally. The findings suggest the use of digital information may be related to cognitive functions of older adults, since the use of digital technology and information requires more cognitive effort. ConclusionsThe study illustrates factors that make patients choose SDM or ISDM-based processes in third-age populations. In general, the results suggest that, even though a physician may attempt to place the patient in the center of the decision process, printed information does not empower the patient in the same way that digital resources do. This may have wider ramifications if the patient does not buy into the treatment plan is and becomes less motivated to be compliant with the treatment. Another key contribution of this research is to identify processes that reflect information assessment and adoptions, and the behaviors related to medical decision making, both as a model and as a process. This study suggests what health care professionals should expect to see as the transition to more digital information sources becomes the norm among the elderly population. Future research is needed to examine this model under different conditions, and to check for other variables and mechanisms perceived as mediators in the choice of SDM or ISDM processes.

Persepsi Dosen dan Mahasiswa Program Studi Informasi Perpustakaan dan Kearsipan Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni Universitas Negeri Padang terhadap Wikipedia sebagai Sumber Informasi Digital Ilmiah

Based on the research of the study. It can be concluded as follows. IPK lecturers perception of Wikipedia as a scientific digital information source. 1) Perception of Wikipedia knowledge and understanding. Most of IPK lecturers and students know the advantages and disadvantage of Wikipedia. 2) perception of Wikipedia usage and access indicators. Most of IPK lecturers and students often access and used Wikipedia, including in making scientific works. 3) IPK lecturers and students perceptions of assessment indicators in the use of Wikipedia as a scientific digital information source. Assessment indicators in Wikipedia accuracy. Many of IPK lecturers and students stated that Wikipedia is quite accurate as a digital scientific information source.

ORGANIZATIONAL ASPECTS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF CRM-SYSTEMS IN THE ACTIVITY OF THE ENTERPRISE

The article covers the main features of CRM–systems as well as the functionality of common platforms in the main scopes – sales management, marketing, communications with related inner departments; the feasibility of applying CRM–systems alongside with the usage of the project management approach in the context of the Kanban-processes and the methodology "AGILE" has been proved; the stages of implementation of CRM–systems at the enterprise from the position of personnel management and use of digital sources of information for making management decisions are outlined; the main advantages of using CRM–systems for business processes in general, as well as for marketing and organization of the work process in particular, are outlined.

Upaya Peningkatan Kemampuan Literasi Digital Bagi Tenaga Perpustakaan Sekolah dan Guru di Wilayah Jakarta Pusat Melalui Pelatihan Literasi Informasi

The enhancing of information technology and internet, resulting in digital information resources are very abundant. Now days, the students in Indonesia as a digital native has a high dependence on the internet. The lack of information literacy skill among learners has a bad impacts. One of them is many plagiarism of copyrighted work happened in the school academic . This becomes a challenge for teachers and school librarian to solve this problem. The purpose of this information literacy training program is to provide skills for teachers and school librarian in order to teach students to be able to recognize what kinds of information are needed, electronic information sources, digital information sources search strategies, and information evaluation. Thus, the engagement community entitled "Information Literacy Training In The Digital Age For Teacher and School Librarian In Central Jakarta " has a positive impact to improve information literacy skill for teachers and school librarian as well as students.

Information Needs and Information Seeking Behavior of College Teachers in Morigaon District: A Case Study

This study explores Information needs and information seeking behavior of college teachers in Morigaon Districts. A total of 235 questionnaire were distributed to the teachers of all colleges, out of which 120 were returned six colleges in Morigaon District. This study reveals that majority of college teacher are research information before preparing the lecture. The study also revealed that in spite of having access to modern and up-to-date digital information sources, most respondents still preferred using printed materials. Nonetheless, CD-ROM was the most utilized IT based source. For the Internet-based information sources and applications, e-mail was the most popular while other applications were used infrequently. This study also found that majority of college teachers faced once or more constraints while collecting their information.

Civic media literacy as 21st century source work: Future social studies teachers examine web sources about climate change

Civic media literacy entails understanding complex topics and events that are increasingly mediated by digital sources of information and where it can be challenging to evaluate the reliability merits of these sources. The goal of this study was to discern the ways undergraduate preservice social studies teachers with different climate change beliefs read and evaluated the reliability of four diverse Web sources about the complex socioscientific topic of climate change. Findings highlight clear alignment between most participants with climate change beliefs at either end of a beliefs continuum with less alignment for participants with climate change beliefs toward the middle of a continuum. Findings also point to the benefits of whole group deliberation to help participants more critically evaluate a Web source that opposed the scientific consensus about climate change. In an age of “alternative facts,” this study points to the importance of students and educators having opportunities to evaluate, discuss, and determine the credibility of a range of online sources.

Digital Embeddedness and its Effect on Organizational Purchase Decisions

Business scholars and thought leaders suggest that increased reliance on digital sources (e.g., blogs, social media, and online forums) exhibited by the emerging millennial workforce may affect procurement decisions. These arguments contend with research that indicates that organizational buyers rely on decision shortcuts (e.g., brand, loyalty, and peer opinions) to mitigate risks or to simplify purchase decisions. One can argue that buyers gain more information from digital sources, which may attenuate their reliance on heuristics. At the same time, digital sources may strengthen prior beliefs, which can increase reliance on decision proxies. This study draws from information processing theory to understand the role of digital sources of information in decision-making, in the context of business purchasing. Based on the Accessibility-Diagnosticity framework, we introduce a novel Digital Embeddedness construct to conceptualize the extent to which information from digital sources is integral to an individual’s decision-making. Analysis of survey responses from 196 purchasing managers suggests that more digitally embedded buyers are more willing to adopt innovations, yet interestingly, rely more on decision shortcuts such as brand and peer opinions. We also find that while more digitally embedded buyers feel more attached to their existing vendors, they are less likely to re-purchase from them. We discuss implications for B2B collaboration, including customer relationship management. This research elucidates individual-level differences in the use of digital sources, and thus has implications for future work that examines the interpretation of digital information to inform business decisions.

Digital information resources preferences and evaluation criteria used by the final year engineering undergraduates: a case study

The purpose of this paper is to present one aspect of the findings of a major study carried out to assess the information seeking and research strategies of the undergraduates of University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka and the paper serves four objectives; 1) to explore the student‟s preferences of information resources, 2) to identify the criteria they use to evaluate the digital information sources, 3) to recognize the strengths and weaknesses of their information seeking practices and 4) to make appropriate recommendations to strengthen their information seeking practices. A stratified random sample of second, third and fourth year undergraduates were considered for the main survey and accordingly 10% (40 students) of the final year students of the Faculty of Engineering were considered for this paper. Head and Eisenberg‟s (2009) survey instrument was used to gather data. Findings established that the final year engineering students rely more on search engines, Wikipedia and classmates while scholarly databases are used only by a smaller percentage. It was established that the engineering students have higher preference for some digital resources than the other types of resources. In using evaluation criteria they predominantly use self-taught methods instead of traditional reliable methods. It could be inferred that they encounter problems in selecting the most appropriate digital information resources for their academic research. The study further established that majority of the engineering students have not received any formal training in searching or evaluating of digital resources. They have commented that it would be beneficial to have training in the use of library and internet resources. The present study fills the gap in research about the information seeking behavior of engineering undergraduates of University of Peradeniya and it will contribute to the global body of literature in this aspect. It is also expected that the findings will underpin the development of future information literacy programs to be offered through the library.

Towards a Better Understanding of Cities Using Mobility Data

The increasing concentration of people in cities generates many problems of control in the management of resources and urban space. Urban sprawl, for example, generates serious environmental, social and economic challenges that pertain to congestion, increasing transport costs, and segregated urban environments. Making cities 'smarter' has the potential to provide a solution for handling more efficiently new sources of digital information, to gain a better understanding of urban dynamics and human mobility and last but not least, to search for more sustainable living conditions. In this context, the increasing availability of geolocated data generated by the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) provides new tools to analyse activity and mobility patterns in urban environments. In this paper, we present an overview of recent findings in empirical applications of such 'big data' to the systematic study of cities and their problems of movement. The paper concludes with a discussion on the potential of this new source of data and on how the coupling of big data analysis and computer modelling can open new horizons for the analysis of urban systems.