Table 6.
Motivation for searching online health information.
| WHAT ARE THE MOTIVATIONS THAT MAKE YOU LOOK FOR HEALTH INFORMATION ONLINE? | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Very Much | Much | Enough | Few | Nothing | ||
| Lack of time to go to the family doctor | Number of answers given by respondents | 14 | 20 | 63 | 56 | 56 |
| Percentage | 7% | 10% | 30% | 27% | 27% | |
| Lack of trust in the family doctor | Number of answers given by respondents | 9 | 10 | 41 | 55 | 94 |
| Percentage | 4% | 5% | 20% | 26% | 45% | |
| To obtain information quickly | Number of answers given by respondents | 42 | 71 | 63 | 22 | 11 |
| Percentage | 20% | 34% | 30% | 11% | 5% | |
| Embarrassment to ask certain questions to the family doctor | Number of answers given by respondents | 4 | 7 | 29 | 45 | 124 |
| Percentage | 2% | 3% | 14% | 22% | 59% | |
| To obtain much more information | Number of answers given by respondents | 20 | 28 | 65 | 49 | 47 |
| Percentage | 10% | 13% | 31% | 23% | 22% | |
| To check the therapies recommended by the family doctor | Number of answers given by respondents | 12 | 14 | 36 | 54 | 93 |
| Percentage | 6% | 7% | 17% | 26% | 44% | |
| To have an opinion different from the family doctor | Number of answers given by respondents | 17 | 29 | 68 | 47 | 48 |
| Percentage | 8% | 14% | 33% | 22% | 23% | |