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\"\"Literature on minorities’ health-related information seeking shows that minorities, like non-minorities, require access to accurate and timely information, but they also need information in a range of languages and from a variety of sources. Health-related information seeking behaviour of Persian-speaking minorities living in Finland, explicitly focused on the COVID-19 pandemic situation, was investigated. Eighteen semi-structured interviews were conducted, and the extended Longo Health Information Model was used as a theoretical lens for analysing the data. The results point to several factors that can improve the outcome of minorities’ health-related information seeking behaviours and activities, such as providing information related to their personal health, a deeper understanding of factors influencing the quality of health conditions at the individual or household level and broadcasting the latest health-related information in different languages and emphasize the needs for mental health-related information and services. The findings suggest that not only healthcare providers, immigration officials, and policymakers should be aware of the specific health-related information that minorities require, seek, and use during times of adversity, but also the extent to which how the identified factors influence the process of minorities’ seeking health-related information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ahmadinia, H., Eriksson-Backa, K., & Nikou, S. (2022). Health information seeking behaviour during exceptional times: A case study of Persian-speaking minorities in Finland. Library & Information Science Research, 44(2), 101156<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"had_date":"2022-01-01","had_date_precision":"day","had_venue":"Library & Information Science Research","had_authors":"Ahmadinia, H., Eriksson-Backa, K., & Nikou, S.","had_external_url":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.lisr.2022.101156","had_doi":"10.1016\/j.lisr.2022.101156","had_citation":"Ahmadinia, H., Eriksson-Backa, K., & Nikou, S. (2022). Health information seeking behaviour during exceptional times: A case study of Persian-speaking minorities in Finland. Library & Information Science Research, 44(2), 101156","had_meta_label":"Peer-reviewed journal article","had_amount":"","had_location":"","had_topic":"","had_field":"Health information seeking; Migration; COVID-19","had_method":"Qualitative research","had_data_source":"","had_participants":"","had_platform":"","had_level":"","had_publisher":"Elsevier","had_language":"English","had_jufo":"","had_institution":"","had_students":"","had_credits":"","had_format":"Journal article","had_city":"","had_latitude":"","had_longitude":"","had_quantity":"","had_amount_eur":"","had_currency":"","had_country":"","had_project_id":"","had_featured":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"academic_type":[105],"class_list":["post-1404","academic_item","type-academic_item","status-publish","hentry","academic_type-journal-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahmadinia.fi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/academic_item\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahmadinia.fi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/academic_item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahmadinia.fi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/academic_item"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahmadinia.fi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahmadinia.fi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/academic_item\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1471,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahmadinia.fi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/academic_item\/1404\/revisions\/1471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahmadinia.fi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahmadinia.fi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"academic_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahmadinia.fi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/academic_type?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}