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Record W4410448410 · doi:10.3233/shti250372

Online Health Information Resources: The Key Congruence Between User Characteristics, Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use

2025· article· en· W4410448410 on OpenAlexaff
André Michaud, Virginie Blanchette, François Boudreau, Sarah Lafontaine, Denis Leroux, Paule Miquelon, Michel Vallée, Joany Rousseau-Bédard, Lyne Cloutier

Bibliographic record

VenueStudies in health technology and informatics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicTechnology Adoption and User Behaviour
Canadian institutionsUniversité du Québec à Trois-RivièresUniversité de MontréalUniversité de Sherbrooke
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCongruence (geometry)UsabilityKey (lock)Computer scienceHealth informationPsychologyHuman–computer interactionInternet privacyKnowledge managementHealth careSocial psychologyComputer securityPolitical science

Abstract

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Little is known about the factors that determine the use of online health resources (OHR) by people with chronic conditions, who are often older. Using the TAM III conceptual model, we collected data using an electronic questionnaire and focus groups. Perceived usefulness, related to people's specific health condition, and perceived ease of use, related to a simple and accessible design, interact significantly with the intention to use an OHR. This study highlights the importance of characterizing the target population for an OHR to encourage and facilitate its use. Age is not a barrier to the uses of such resources.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.033
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.019

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.033
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.127
GPT teacher head0.414
Teacher spread0.287 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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