Abstract:

Individuals may seek health information from various sources for the health of themselves and the people around them. It is important for people to be in the behavior of seeking health information in order to be able to make more conscious and more accurate decisions about the precautions to be taken against drugs and diseases. The importance of people's timely, accurate and adequate access to health information is increasing in chaos environments that occur during epidemic periods. For this reason, individuals' health-related information seeking behaviors gain importance in such special periods. The aim of this study is to examine the health information seeking behaviors of people aged 18 and over living in Ankara during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the study, Medlock et al. (2015) and used by Kilit (2018), and a questionnaire form was created by adapting the scale to the pandemic process. The survey application was made online. SPSS package program was used to analyze the data obtained from the questionnaires. As a result of the research, it was determined that there was a statistically significant difference between the health information seeking behaviors of the participants and their gender, occupation, age and education level during the Covid-19 pandemic period. It is expected that this study will shed light on different studies to be conducted in the future, as there are limited studies on the health information seeking behaviors of individuals during the pandemic process in the literature reviews.

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