Work-related factors influencing doctors search behaviors and trust toward medical information resources

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Highlights:

• We evaluate the nature of factors that influence the relation between perceived credibility and trust towards institutional information sources and their effects on this relation.

• Two major categories have been considered here based on Wilsons’ Macro Model: Work related and personal motivated.

• A survey instrument was deployed and confirmatory factor analysis was used to evaluate the relations between these factors using Partial Least Squares.

• The study provides partial explanation of doctors’ behavior towards government sponsored information sources such as medical guidelines and protocols.

摘要

•We evaluate the nature of factors that influence the relation between perceived credibility and trust towards institutional information sources and their effects on this relation.•Two major categories have been considered here based on Wilsons’ Macro Model: Work related and personal motivated.•A survey instrument was deployed and confirmatory factor analysis was used to evaluate the relations between these factors using Partial Least Squares.•The study provides partial explanation of doctors’ behavior towards government sponsored information sources such as medical guidelines and protocols.

论文关键词:Information exchange,Knowledge worker,Trust,Healthcare

论文评审过程:Available online 20 December 2013.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2013.11.009