Medical Tourism blogs: Patient intention to choose a medical destination or treatment
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Resumo: | The Internet and the world wide web are fundamental locations within our e-World - thus emerging new e-source of health and healthcare information that are an essential part of the changes in the medical tourism industry. The issues related to the challenges and problems that medical tourists face and the reliability of the information that influences their decision-making need special attention since much fake advertising, news, and business is distributed through social media and targeted medical tourists. A blog is different from other social media since the reader can identify the blogger; therefore, trust is unique. Considering past research on medical tourism and blogs, this study examines whether medical blogs would impact potential medical tourists settling on a choice of healthcare abroad. Data were collected from 143 blog readers and analyzed through Amos. Results showed that informationusefulness and blog credibility are the key determinants inuencing medical blog readers' intention to travel to destinations for treatments. Many people consider blogs as self-reported and reliable compared to the information on social media, which many people question its reliability and do not trust the information. Therefore, ignoring this information and area of research is not possible. |
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Medical Tourism blogs: Patient intention to choose a medical destination or treatmentThe Internet and the world wide web are fundamental locations within our e-World - thus emerging new e-source of health and healthcare information that are an essential part of the changes in the medical tourism industry. The issues related to the challenges and problems that medical tourists face and the reliability of the information that influences their decision-making need special attention since much fake advertising, news, and business is distributed through social media and targeted medical tourists. A blog is different from other social media since the reader can identify the blogger; therefore, trust is unique. Considering past research on medical tourism and blogs, this study examines whether medical blogs would impact potential medical tourists settling on a choice of healthcare abroad. Data were collected from 143 blog readers and analyzed through Amos. Results showed that informationusefulness and blog credibility are the key determinants inuencing medical blog readers' intention to travel to destinations for treatments. Many people consider blogs as self-reported and reliable compared to the information on social media, which many people question its reliability and do not trust the information. Therefore, ignoring this information and area of research is not possible.Departamento de Economia, Gestão, Engenharia Industrial e Turismo da Universidade de Aveiro2022-09-28T00:00:00Zjournal articlejournal articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.34624/rtd.v39i0.30378oai:proa.ua.pt:article/30378Journal of Tourism & Development; Vol 39 (2022); 389-404Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento; vol. 39 (2022); 389-4042182-14531645-9261reponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAPenghttps://proa.ua.pt/index.php/rtd/article/view/30378https://doi.org/10.34624/rtd.v39i0.30378https://proa.ua.pt/index.php/rtd/article/view/30378/21039Direitos de Autor (c) 2022 Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimentohttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessMoghavvemi, SedighehWong, Brian Kee MunHassani, Ali2022-10-06T11:15:16Zoai:proa.ua.pt:article/30378Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T16:10:36.351507Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Medical Tourism blogs: Patient intention to choose a medical destination or treatment |
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Medical Tourism blogs: Patient intention to choose a medical destination or treatment Moghavvemi, Sedigheh |
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Moghavvemi, Sedigheh |
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Moghavvemi, Sedigheh Wong, Brian Kee Mun Hassani, Ali |
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The Internet and the world wide web are fundamental locations within our e-World - thus emerging new e-source of health and healthcare information that are an essential part of the changes in the medical tourism industry. The issues related to the challenges and problems that medical tourists face and the reliability of the information that influences their decision-making need special attention since much fake advertising, news, and business is distributed through social media and targeted medical tourists. A blog is different from other social media since the reader can identify the blogger; therefore, trust is unique. Considering past research on medical tourism and blogs, this study examines whether medical blogs would impact potential medical tourists settling on a choice of healthcare abroad. Data were collected from 143 blog readers and analyzed through Amos. Results showed that informationusefulness and blog credibility are the key determinants inuencing medical blog readers' intention to travel to destinations for treatments. Many people consider blogs as self-reported and reliable compared to the information on social media, which many people question its reliability and do not trust the information. Therefore, ignoring this information and area of research is not possible. |
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