In the past few years, social media has changed the ways that health seekers seek health information. However, despite the tremendous growth of social media applications in the health-care industry, trust is still among the biggest challenges for social media health services in gaining greater acceptance. Drawn from previous literature on self-determination theory, social support, and trust, this study investigates people's intentions to seek health-information on social media. The authors carefully selected a sample from Italy with subjects who already had experience in seeking health information on social media. The empirical results show that informational support, emotional support, and the satisfaction of people's autonomy and relatedness needs play an important role through trust in influencing people's health-information-seeking intentions on social media. This study is among the first to adopt the theories of self-determination, social support, and trust to investigate people's intentions to seek health information on social media.

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在社交媒体上寻找健康信息

在过去的几年中，社交媒体改变了寻求健康者寻求健康信息的方式。但是，尽管社交媒体在医疗保健行业中的应用取得了巨大的增长，但在获得更大的接受度方面，信任仍然是社交媒体健康服务面临的最大挑战之一。这项研究取材自先前有关自决理论，社会支持和信任的文献，调查了人们在社交媒体上寻求健康信息的意图。作者精心挑选了来自意大利的样本，这些样本具有在社交媒体上寻找健康信息的经验。实证结果表明，信息支持，情感支持以及人们对自主性和亲密性需求的满足通过信任对人们的影响力起着重要作用。在社交媒体上寻求健康信息的意图。该研究是最早采用自决，社会支持和信任理论来调查人们在社交媒体上寻求健康信息的意图之一。