Investigating Predictors of Visiting, Using, and Revisiting an Online Health-Communication Program: A Longitudinal Study

• Published in: Journal of medical Internet research Vol. 12; no. 3; p. e37
• Main Authors: Van 't Riet, Jonathan, Crutzen, Rik, De Vries, Hein
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canada Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH, Associate Professor 02.09.2010; Gunther Eysenbach; JMIR Publications
• Subjects: Activity level; Attitudes; behaviors; Communication; computer; Computer mediated communication; dissemination; Education; Email; Exercise; Expert systems; exposure; Feedback; Female; Health; Health Behavior; Health care; Health education; Health information; Health promotion; Health Promotion - methods; Health Promotion - trends; Health status; Humans; Immigrants; Internet; Internet access; internet use; Intervention; Interventions; life-style; Longitudinal Studies; Male; metaanalysis; Motivation; of-the-literature; Older people; Online Systems; Original Paper; Physical activity; physical-activity interventions; Predictive Value of Tests; Public health; Questionnaires; Recruitment; User experience; Visitors; Websites; Womens health; Youth

Online health communication has the potential to reach large audiences, with the additional advantages that it can be operational at all times and that the costs per visitor are low. Furthermore, research shows that Internet-delivered interventions can be effective in changing health behaviors. Howe...