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PRISM: a planned risk information seeking model.

LeeAnn Kahlor¹

¹Department of Advertising and Public Relations, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA.

Health Communication

|June 1, 2010

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This study introduces the Planned Risk Information Seeking Model (PRISM) to understand individual factors influencing health risk information seeking. PRISM explains 59% of the variance in seeking intent, outperforming previous models.

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Area of Science:

Health Communication
Information Science
Behavioral Science

Background:

Health information seeking research often focuses on specific contexts.
There is a need to understand individual-level variables influencing health risk information seeking across diverse situations.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose and test an integrated model, the Planned Risk Information Seeking Model (PRISM).
To identify individual-level variables impacting health risk information seeking behavior.
To assess the explanatory power of PRISM compared to existing theories.

Main Methods:

Developed the Planned Risk Information Seeking Model (PRISM) by integrating variables from established theories.
Included constructs from the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and Risk Information Seeking and Processing (RISP) model.
Incorporated insights from Augmented RISP, Theory of Motivated Information Management, and others.

Main Results:

The integrated PRISM model accounted for 59% of the variance in health risk information-seeking intent.
PRISM demonstrated superior performance in explaining seeking intent compared to the TPB or RISP models used independently.

Conclusions:

PRISM offers a comprehensive framework for understanding the planned nature of health risk information seeking.
Individual-level variables are crucial for explaining variations in health risk information seeking across contexts.
The integrated model provides a more robust explanation of seeking intent than previous theoretical frameworks.