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Alternative Title:
Patient Educ Couns
Personal Author:
Ramondt, Steven ; Ramírez, A. Susana
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Description:
Objective:

A growing body of research suggests that exposure to too much information – particularly contradictory information that characterizes much health-related information – can lead to feeling overwhelmed. This construct has been conflated with fatalistic beliefs that are negatively associated with preventive behaviors. The objective of this study was to adapt the 8item Cancer Information Overload (CIO) scale to assess overload of healthy diet information.

Methods:

Confirmatory factor analyses with a community sample of rural California adults (n=290; 75% female; 58% Latino; 46%≤H.S./G.E.D.).

Results:

Items assessing Diet Information Overload loaded significantly on their relevant factor; factor loadings were acceptable (β≥.40). The adapted original scale (CFI=1.000, RSMEA=.000, SMSR=.022) and a shorter 5-item scale (CFI=.984, RMSEA=.051, SMSR=.026) fit well.

Conclusion:

The Cancer Information Overload scale was successfully adapted and shortened to measure perceptions – previously mischaracterized as fatalistic – pertaining to diet information. Improved measures distinguishing between fatalistic beliefs and outcomes of the information environment are critical.

Practice Implications:

Understanding information overload is important for shaping prevention messages distinct from those needed to address fatalistic beliefs. Nutrition education efforts should consider the broader – cluttered – information environment in which nutrition education and communication occurs, and public health messages may drown.


Subject:
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Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Article
Beliefs
California
CFA
Consumer Health Information
Diet
DIO Scale
Factor Analysis, Statistical
Female
Health Behavior
Health Education
Humans
Information Overload
Information Seeking Behavior
Male
Measurement
Middle Aged
Nutrition
Rural Population

Source:
Patient Educ Couns. 102(1):37-42
Pubmed ID:
30097378
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC6289837
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
K01 CA190659/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States ; U58 DP005710/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States
K01 CA190659/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States ; U58 DP005710/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States Less -
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CDC Public Access
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:324154aa0ffc2d1e32d0958efd2d0ddfa667b6a6b744f1658b46b60afd72f12e
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