Table 2.
Sources for online health information seeking (N=297).
| Source | Values, n (%) |
| Search engines (eg, Google, Bing, and Yahoo) | 291 (98) |
| Health-related websites (eg, WebMD, Mayo Clinic, and PubMed Central) | 203 (68.4) |
| Social media (eg, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit) | 119 (40.1) |
| Health community forums | 84 (28.3) |
| LLMa-based chatbots (eg, ChatGPT, Bard, Gemini, YouChat, and Copilot; Microsoft Corp) | 63 (21.2) |
| Health applications (eg, diagnosis tool) | 54 (18.2) |
| Conversational assistants (eg, Siri, Alexa, and Google Home) | 24 (24.7) |
| Government, charity, and insurance health websites | 3 (1) |
| Academic journals and publications | 2 (0.6) |
| Electronic health records (eg, MyChart) | 1 (0.3) |
| Podcasts | 1 (0.3) |
aLLM: large language model.