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ESRC SCOTTISH DOCTORAL TRAINING CENTRE INFORMATION SCIENCE PATHWAY TRAINING 2016 12th-13th April 20156- SLIDE 1 Kostagiolas , Lectures

Dr. Petros A. Kostagiolas Assistant Professor of Information Services Management Department of Archives, Library Science and Museology

School of Information Sciences and Informatics Ionian University, Email. [email protected]

ESRC SCOTTISH DOCTORAL TRAINING CENTRE INFORMATION SCIENCE PATHWAY TRAINING 2016

12th-13th April - Room 5.B.14 – Edinburgh Napier University Sighthill campus

“A research approach for explaining distance outcomes of

information needs satisfaction through Wilson’s macro model”

Ionian University

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“Restless” Academic’s … Isolation?

• We need to TIME to think and synthesize …

• We need to SHARE & COMMUNICATE our Research Ideas & our Research Results …

• Thank you for this Excellent Opportunity


The Ionian University…


My published research…

I would like to thank Prof. H. Hall for her invitation and suggestions for networking


My (unpublished) research!

RESEARCH IDEAS

& Constantly Work on Research Methods

RESEARCH UNDER REVIEW

M.Sc. & RESEARCH STUDENTS,

“MY” PhD STUDENTS

RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS / SYNERGIES / PROGRAMS …

COLLEAGUES I LIKE TO SHARE RESEARCH AND WORK

WITH…!

Stella Vazaiou Impact of Libraries & Cultural

Organizations Evagellios Persakis

I.S. and Clinical Prognosis Tatianna Laskari

I.C. in Public Sector


The Ionian Webinars Project


The new…Summer School… Our Vision


Lecture Overview

• Theoretical Background

• Published Work

• Discussing Current and Future Research


Lecture Overview


• Published Work



Objective of the Background Theory Section

• To appreciate the role and the research background of Information Seeking Behaviour (ISB) and information needs satisfaction

• To understand fundamental issues, concepts and the major ISB models with emphasis on Wilson’s macro-model

• To examine major application and research areas of ISB

• To understand how ISB is studied: Research skills and methods of studying information seeking behaviors


Realizing a “certainty” … and our role as scientists

Information has an Impact on

Society Economy Education Healthcare Tourism Businesses Creative Industry Culture Habits

ALL aspects of our Work and Life Lines


Information is a “Necessary” “Instrumental” Good – Information Know-How Skills


So…information is the “answer to all questions?

“Information is related to answers”

Information cannot always be predicted and the “proper” information resolves uncertainty… and contribute to any

problem solving activity… (Wilson, 1999)


But who needs information … Anxiety – Denial – Overload!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FqUkvaXJf4

Roger Waters - Who Needs Information


Bringing it all together ….

• For Information Profession and Information Organizations…

• For Individuals…

• For Organizations of all Economic Sectors…

• For the society…

• For the Economy of knowledge… • Examples, applications and discussion..

We need to study customers’ / users’ / professionals’ information seeking behaviour …


The research issues…

• To identify the uses of information by different user groups within their work and life environments and roles:

• What motivate people to seek information • How people behave in response to their information needs • Patterns of actions towards satisfying their information needs

• To identify best practices for satisfying information needs

through the proper sources of information

• To identify the impact of information on their professional and “life” performance

• To develop users’ information seeking skills through information literacy programs

ESRC SCOTTISH DOCTORAL TRAINING CENTRE INFORMATION SCIENCE PATHWAY TRAINING 2016 12th-13th April 20156- SLIDE 18 Kostagiolas , Lectures 18

What should be the next step in our quest for Information Seeking Research?


Modeling the information in context perspective

…this Includes understanding of the “information seeking preferences

and information needs” of professionals /customers / users…

which relate to the satisfaction of more basic Human Needs (e.g. cognitive, affinitive, psychological) in the digital

information universe


The complicated issue of Information Needs… (Bawden, 2006)


Modeling Information Seeking Behavior?

• “a process in which humans purposefully engage in order to change their state of knowledge” (Marchionini, 1995)

• “the study of how people need, seek, give, and use information in different contexts, including the workplace and everyday living” (Pettigrew et al, 2001)

• “a process that includes multiple stages of question asking and refining, information gathering and evaluating…synthesis and use of information” (Wallace et al, 2000).


Where is my STAR? Models in social sciences...versus models in physical sciences

• A framework for representing “reality” and reducing uncertainly (time – space – context)

• A framework of thinking and model “phenomena” through their specific characteristics, relationships, actions etc.

• Understand the present and the past –without models their would nothing to study and therefore nothing to learn (Deming, 1994)–

• Predict the future

James Truslow Adams (American Writer & Historian) quoted in relation to “the position of

the stars and the astronomer's family… ”

http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/frontiers/web/index3.html


Models and types of models in information Seeking

Institutional – an idealized framework of reality …

Grounded – based on empirical and theoretical research

Narrative – based on research but rationalize researcher’s findings

Synthesized – derived from previous research and are followed with recommendations for further research


A nested model - from information behaviour to information searching (Wilson 1999)

Information Retrieval

Communication

http://www.informationr.net/tdw/publ/unis/report.html


Wilson's macro ISB model (1981, 1990)

http://www.informationr.net/tdw/publ/papers/1999JDoc.html


Wilson's model of 1996



Wilson's information-seeking behaviour model (1999)



Revisiting Wilson’s Macro Model of ISB: On user studies and information needs, Wilson (2006)


Determining factors for information needs and information-seeking behaviour (Wilson, 2006)

• The Socioeconomic structures…

• The political systems…

• The physical environment…

• Other…?


Further research… (Wilson, 2006)

• Encourage both quantitative and qualitative research: – Uncovering the facts of life of the people being studied – Understand what motivates individuals to seek information – Understand what meaning information has in everyday life – Understand the user and thus design better information

services and systems

• Narrow down the context of the research so that crucial issues are identified.

• Widen our conceptual perspectives of the user and his behaviour.


Lecture Overview


• Published Research



Proximal and Distal Relations to Study

DISTAL PROXIMAL INFORMATION BEHAVIOUR INFO NEEDS SATISFACTION DISTAL PROXIMAL

Information Motives

Information Needs

Resources Utilization

Information Obstacles

Personality Traits

Situational Factors

Socioeconomic Drivers – Scenario Planning

Info Needs Satisfaction

Info Resources Competition

Paths to Info N. Satisf.

Subj. /Obj. Impact on Role (e.g. Creativity)

Impact on Services / Product

Consumption

Impact on Job Satisf.

Impact on

Lifestyle

Impact on Information

Services Management Information Literacy Skills


Needs and motives for information seeking How often do you search for the following information?

Motives/ needs

for information

Active seeking and/or passive receiving sources of information: Digital –

Conventional – Interpersonal

Barriers to information

Exercise…

PROBLEM: Choose a “role”

and identify variables for the

following constructs based on Wilson’s model of

ISB

Information Resources How often do you use the following

information resources?

Information Barriers How important are for you the following

obstacles when seeking information?


The last 6 years … selected papers

• 2016 – The Impact of Information on Doctors’ Attitudes Toward Generic Drugs – Studying the Information Behavior of Healthcare Professionals in a

Greek Private Clinic Using Social Networks Models • 2015

– The Participatory Medicine Attitudes of General Practitioners in Greece: An Information Behaviour Perspective

– Music information seeking behaviour as motivator for musical creativity: Conceptual analysis and literature review

– Information seeking for musical creativity: A systematic literature review – Information seeking behavior of patients with diabetes mellitus: a cross-

sectional study in an outpatient clinic of a university-affiliated hospital • 2014

– Music, musicians and information seeking behaviour: A case study on a community concert band


For far… selected papers – Work-related factors influencing doctors search behaviors and trust toward medical

information resources – How nurses behave online? Nurses’ online information needs and internet seeking

behaviour • 2013

– Information seeking behaviour of parents of paediatric patients for clinical decision making: the role of information literacy in a participatory setting.

• 2012 – Examining patterns of information behavior among healthcare professionals: a case study

on health psychologists – Studying the information-seeking behavior of hospital professionals: The case of METAXA

Cancer Hospital • 2011

– A study of the information seeking behaviour of hospital pharmacists: empirical evidence from Greece

• 2010 – An information behaviour investigation of the community pharmacists in Greece for

developing library and information services


Storytelling …


The problem: decision making in healthcare


Socioeconomic aspects of Medical Condition

Family and work aspects of Medical Condition

A Wilson’s based information behavior model for modeling relationships between actors

Health 2.0 Digital

Conventional

Interpersonal

Patient personal preferences on

Medical Condition

Patient Motives/Needs for Information

Sources of Information

Healthcare Environment

Decision supporting role / health coaching

Professional role

Physician Motives/Needs for Information

Barriers

Personal

Interpersonal

Environment

Barriers

Personal

Interpersonal

Environment

Information Behavior framework for shared clinical decisions

(reliable evidence-based information interchange on the benefits and harms of clinical interventions, including uncertainties and risks, preferences and

supporting actions)


Patient Information shaping a non-judgemental, supportive clinical consulting practice

(1) Developing empathy and trust;

(2) Negotiated agenda-setting and prioritising;

(3) Information sharing;

(4)Communicating and managing risk;

(5) Supportive deliberation; and

(6) Summarizing, making and documenting the decision


No decision about me, without me!

http://www.informationr.net/ir/18-3/paper590.html#.Uz2im1csalU


Parents’ Information Needs


SDM & ISB

http://www.informationr.net/ir/18-3/paper590.html#.Uz2im1csalU


Internet seeking behavioral paths of doctors for diabetes mellitus care


A selective literature review for informing the questionnaire dimensions


An information seeking behaviour investigation of pharmacists


IN & ISB of Artists (Hemming, 2008)

Motives for seeking info • Inspiration

• Specific art elements

• Knowledge of performance

techniques

• Marketing and career guidance

• Knowledge of the current trends in the art world

Characteristics of info needs • Extremely idiosyncratic!

• Information that has no

epistemic relationship to art

• Browsing is the strongly preferred behavior

• Social information gathering is also important, particularly for knowledge of techniques, and for marketing and career guidance


Music, Musicians and Information seeking behaviour: A case study on a community concert band


More Storytelling The Participatory Medicine Attitudes of General Practitioners in Greece: An Information Behaviour Perspective

Petros Kostagiolas

Assistant Professor,

Department of Archive, Library Science and

Museology,

Ionian University

[email protected]

Fivos Kakavitsas

Corfu Regional Hospital, Corfu, Greece

[email protected]

Konstantina Martzoukou Lecturer,

Department of Information Management,

Robert Gordon University, [email protected]

Dimitris Niakas

Professor

Hellenic Open University

[email protected]





Participatory health for all of us! Professor Bas Bloem - Consultant Neurologist at the Department of Neurology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, the Netherlands)

I want good and reliable information! I want to have part in

making the decisions to start treatment or not! And, where can I

find other patients like me? And what can I do to make things better?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnDWt10Maf8&feature=youtu.be�


GPs Nature of Work

patients medical histories

first post of call

sense of community

familiarity with clinical conditions

patient referral

comprehensive medical care

communication / shared decisions

not limited to a particular branch of

medicine


Aims and Objectives


Data Collection

Survey (distributed to 664 GPs) registered to the Hellenic Society of General

Practitioners – 176 responded (26%) - February to March 2014

demographic characteristics of GPs (e.g. age, healthcare unit, workplace, and

specialization).

the importance of work related information needs

frequency of using different information resources

the importance of barriers that GPs face when seeking information

the importance of doctor-patient relations

“development of understanding and trust”

“deciding in common the agenda and priorities”

“sharing information”

“communication for reducing patient anxiety”

“supportive actions”

“explaining evidence-based alternatives” Coulter & Collins 2011 - shared decision-making in the

National Health System (NHS) in the U.K) 5-point Likert scale 1= “not at all” to 5= “a lot.”


“explaining evidence-based alternatives” (Η(2)=6,941, p=0.031)

• below 40 years (mean rank 89.37) • 41 to 55 years (mean rank of 80.38)

• above 55 (mean rank of 38.80)

a means for setting a “common agenda and priorities”(Spearman's correlation)

• “diagnosis” (rs= 0.193, p<0.05) • “patient material” (rs= 0.194, p<0.05).

Value of Participatory Medicine and needs

“sharing information” (Spearman's correlation)

• “knowledge update” (rs= 0.270, p<0.005) • “drugs” (rs= 0.189, p<0.05).

“communication for reducing patient anxiety” (Spearman's correlation)

• “therapy” (rs= 0.179, p<0.05).

“explaining evidence-based alternatives” (Spearman's correlation)

• “diagnosis” (rs= 0.226, p<0.005).


“scholar databases” • “development of understanding and trust”

(rs= 0.165, p<0.05) • “information sharing” (rs= 0.196, p<0.05)

• “common agenda and priorities” (rs= 0.195, p<0.05).

“medical websites” • “common agenda and priorities” (rs= 0.160,

p<0.05) • “communication for reducing patient

anxiety” (rs= 0.173, p<0.05)

Participatory Medicine & Information Sources & Information Barriers

“updating services” • “communication for reducing patient

anxiety” (rs= 0.158, p<0.05) • “development of understanding and trust”

(rs=-0.198, p<0.05).

“general search engines” • “supportive actions” (rs= 0.171, p<0.05)

• “guidelines” (rs= 0.325, p<0.005).

“guidelines” • “communication for reducing patient

anxiety”(rs= 0.160, p<0.05)

“electronic medical journals” • “communication for reducing patient

anxiety”(rs= 0.209, p<0.005).

“lack of digital literacy skills” • negative correlation: “common

agenda and priorities” (rs= -0.166, p<0.05)

“lack of trust in online information”

• Negative correlation: “information sharing” (rs= -0.172, p<0.05).

Participants who experienced these barriers were less likely to perceive the value of the above PM dimensions.


Lecture Overview


• Published Work

• Discussing “Current” and Future Research


Adding distance … more stories


Theoretical Considerations


Study aim and design


The Results …


Moving further … more stories …


Departing towards distant relations …


The study framework


The self-perceived Quality of Life


Quality of Life and ISB


Quality of life and Info Resources


Quality of Life and Info Barriers


Looking for … S.E.M. explaining the drivers and the impact of ISB on peoples’ roles

MODERATION AND MEDIATION OF RELATIONS


It can become worse…


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