This paper is in the following e-collection/theme issue:

Social Media in Public Health informatics (67) Infodemiology in Public Health Informatics (26) Behavioral Surveillance for Population and Public Health Informatics (57) Information Seeking, Information Needs (561) Medicine 2.0: Social Media, Open, Participatory, Collaborative Medicine (1911) Peer-to-Peer Support and Online Communities (797) Information Retrieval (348)

Published on in Vol 15 (2023)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/51984, first published .
Health Information Seeking Behavior on Social Networking Sites and Self-Treatment: Pilot Survey Study

Health Information Seeking Behavior on Social Networking Sites and Self-Treatment: Pilot Survey Study

Health Information Seeking Behavior on Social Networking Sites and Self-Treatment: Pilot Survey Study

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Reginald A Silver1 Author Orcid Image ;   Chandrika Johnson2 Author Orcid Image
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