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  • Behavioral Science
  • Medical Decision Making

Background:

  • Health information avoidance can negatively affect long-term health outcomes.
  • Understanding the psychological factors influencing health information seeking is crucial for public health.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between health information avoidance and self-efficacy.
  • To identify psychological targets for interventions aimed at reducing health information avoidance.

Main Methods:

  • Study 1: Examined the association between general self-efficacy, coping self-efficacy, and health information avoidance.
  • Study 2: Compared disease risk information avoidance between participants who reflected on coping strategies and a control group.

Main Results:

  • Coping self-efficacy, but not general self-efficacy, was significantly associated with lower health information avoidance.
  • Participants prompted to recall positive coping strategies exhibited less avoidance of disease risk information.

Conclusions:

  • Coping self-efficacy plays a key role in the decision to seek or avoid health information.
  • Interventions designed to bolster coping self-efficacy may effectively reduce maladaptive health information avoidance.