Table 5.
Self-reported pro-health behavior triggered by health or disease information obtained from the Internet *.
| The Desire to Change Diet | The Desire to Change Other Habits, ex. Quitting Smoking, Limiting Alcohol | Increasing Healthy Physical Activity | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics | yes | no | P ** | yes | no | P ** | yes | no | P ** | ||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | ||||
| Age groups | 0.008 | 0.034 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 18–35 | 152 | 55.3 | 123 | 44.7 | 67 | 24.5 | 207 | 75.5 | 151 | 54.9 | 124 | 45.1 | |||
| 36–59 | 170 | 47.1 | 191 | 52.9 | 60 | 16.7 | 300 | 83.3 | 167 | 46.5 | 192 | 53.5 | |||
| 60+ | 52 | 39.4 | 80 | 60.6 | 21 | 16.3 | 108 | 83.7 | 31 | 23.3 | 102 | 76.7 | |||
| Sex | 0.029 | 0 | 0.189 | ||||||||||||
| Women | 225 | 52.2 | 206 | 47.8 | 62 | 14.5 | 366 | 85.5 | 187 | 43.4 | 244 | 56.6 | |||
| Men | 149 | 44.2 | 188 | 55.8 | 86 | 25.7 | 249 | 74.3 | 162 | 48.2 | 174 | 51.8 | |||
| Education | 0.015 | 0.456 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Basic/ Vocational | 88 | 41.9 | 122 | 58.1 | 36 | 17.4 | 171 | 82.6 | 73 | 34.8 | 137 | 65.2 | |||
| Secondary | 142 | 47.8 | 155 | 52.2 | 55 | 18.6 | 240 | 81.4 | 139 | 47.0 | 157 | 53.0 | |||
| Higher/ Some higher | 144 | 55.2 | 117 | 44.8 | 57 | 21.8 | 204 | 78.2 | 137 | 52.5 | 124 | 47.5 | |||
| Employment status | 0.093 | 0.015 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Education | 22 | 53.7 | 19 | 46.3 | 16 | 39.0 | 25 | 61.0 | 27 | 65.9 | 14 | 34.1 | |||
| Paid work/ Voluntary/ Other | 260 | 49.8 | 262 | 50.2 | 96 | 18.4 | 425 | 81.6 | 255 | 49.0 | 265 | 51.0 | |||
| Retired/ Permanently sick or disabled | 68 | 41.2 | 97 | 58.8 | 27 | 16.7 | 135 | 83.3 | 46 | 27.7 | 120 | 72.3 | |||
| Unemployment | 24 | 60.0 | 16 | 40.0 | 9 | 23.1 | 30 | 76.9 | 21 | 52.5 | 19 | 47.5 | |||
| Residency type | 0.734 | 0.667 | 0.026 | ||||||||||||
| Alone | 41 | 46.6 | 47 | 53.4 | 18 | 20.9 | 68 | 79.1 | 46 | 51.7 | 43 | 48.3 | |||
| With family/Other | 333 | 49.0 | 346 | 51.0 | 130 | 19.2 | 546 | 80.8 | 303 | 44.8 | 374 | 55.2 | |||
| Residency place | 0.087 | 0.028 | 0.026 | ||||||||||||
| Rural | 120 | 44.0 | 153 | 56.0 | 39 | 14.4 | 232 | 85.6 | 106 | 39.0 | 166 | 61.0 | |||
| Urban | 254 | 51.3 | 241 | 48.7 | 109 | 22.2 | 383 | 77.8 | 243 | 49.1 | 252 | 50.9 | |||
| Health status | 0.052 | 0.532 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Good/Very good | 256 | 51.8 | 238 | 48.2 | 94 | 19.1 | 397 | 80.9 | 260 | 53.0 | 231 | 47.0 | |||
| Fair | 102 | 44.2 | 129 | 55.8 | 44 | 19.2 | 185 | 80.8 | 77 | 33.0 | 156 | 67.0 | |||
| Poor/Very poor | 14 | 36.8 | 24 | 63.2 | 10 | 26.3 | 28 | 73.7 | 11 | 28.9 | 27 | 71.1 | |||
| Frequency of Internet use for health purposes | 0 | 0.481 | 0.009 | ||||||||||||
| Daily | 24 | 72.7 | 9 | 27.3 | 8 | 24.2 | 25 | 75.8 | 19 | 57.6 | 14 | 42.4 | |||
| At least once a month | 235 | 53.3 | 206 | 46.7 | 90 | 20.5 | 348 | 79.5 | 216 | 49.1 | 224 | 50.9 | |||
| At least once a year | 103 | 42.4 | 140 | 57.6 | 44 | 18.3 | 197 | 81.7 | 98 | 40.3 | 145 | 59.7 | |||
| Less than once a year | 11 | 22.9 | 37 | 77.1 | 6 | 12.5 | 42 | 87.5 | 14 | 29.8 | 33 | 70.2 | |||
* Significant differences between positive and negative responses for selected HI-users reactions are marked in bold; ** Calculated statistical significance in Fisher’s exact independence test.