Question

Conduct a short mini-survey of your nonmedical practitioner friends and family (four or five individuals) using the following questions:

1. Do they utilize the Internet to seek out health care information?
2. Do any of them think health care information obtained from the Internet caused them more concern about the symptoms they experienced than they would have otherwise experienced without using this resource?
3. Did information found on the Internet affect their decision in addressing a specific health issue confronting them or someone for whom they are responsible?
4. Did your mini-survey indicate that health care information gleaned from the Internet has the potential to drive overutilization of health care resources?

Provide a summary of your overall mini-survey in regards to the above questions. Please cite resources to validate or clarify respondent responses as appropriate.

Answer 1

Answer: Most of us now adays watch our symptoms on the internet for the information of the particular sign and symptoms. The information given on the internet regarding most of the symptoms are generally very extreme case. The information is a common results and everyone has different symptoms for different illness or disease.

But browsing internet causes awareness and making people more concerned about their lifestyle, healthcare etc. After reading their sign and symptoms results on the internet they themselves presume about the disease and hence they get more concerned and look for the healthcare professionals.

This results indicates that the Information obtained from the internet influences the mind set and concern of people.