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This paper aims to explore the COVID-19 epidemic information needs and information seeking behavior of overseas Chinese students. The questionnaire survey method was adopted to collect data. The results show that personal health protection knowledge, Chinese and foreign governments’ countermeasures, control effects and future plans were the most important information needs of overseas Chinese students. The information need, quality of information sources, information source accessibility and satisfaction of information source update rate have significantly positive effects on information seeking frequency. The relationship between information needs and information seeking frequency is positively moderated by both quality of information source and satisfaction of information source update rate. On the basis of these results, this paper makes suggestions for health information services to overseas Chinese students.
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Wang, L., Ma, Z., Jiang, Y. (2021). COVID-19 Epidemic Information Needs and Information Seeking Behavior of Overseas Chinese Students. In: Toeppe, K., Yan, H., Chu, S.K.W. (eds) Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue. iConference 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12646. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71305-8_3
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