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- Title
The Impact of Popular Science Articles by Physicians on Their Performance on Online Medical Platforms.
- Authors
Liu, Jingfang; Wang, Shiqi; Jiang, Huihong
- Abstract
The public demand for popular science knowledge regarding health is increasing, and physicians' popular science practices on online medical platforms are becoming frequent. Few studies have been conducted to address the relationship between specific characteristics of popular science articles by physicians and their performance. This study explored the impact of the characteristics of popular science articles on physicians' performance based on the elaboration likelihood model (ELM) from the central path (topic focus and readability) and the peripheral path (form diversity). Data on four diseases, namely, lung cancer, brain hemorrhage, hypertension, and depression, were collected from an online medical platform, resulting in relevant personal data from 1295 doctors and their published popular science articles. Subsequently, the independent variables were quantified using thematic analysis and formula calculation, and the research model and hypotheses proposed in this paper were verified through empirical analysis. The results revealed that the topic focus, readability, and form diversity of popular science articles by physicians had a significant positive effect on physicians' performance. This study enriches the research perspective on the factors influencing physicians' performance, which has guiding implications for both physicians and platforms, thereby providing a basis for patients to choose physicians and enabling patients to receive popular science knowledge regarding health in an effective manner.
- Subjects
SERIAL publications; MULTIPLE regression analysis; MATHEMATICAL models; INTERNET; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; THEORY; PHYSICIANS; JOB performance; THEMATIC analysis; EMPIRICAL research; MEDICAL research; TELEMEDICINE
- Publication
Healthcare (2227-9032), 2022, Vol 10, Issue 12, p2432
- ISSN
2227-9032
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/healthcare10122432