According to a recent study, people keeping themselves updated on regular basis by searching online information are more positive towards fighting and preventing cancer.
The study was a combined effort of Chul-joo Lee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jeff Niederdeppe, Cornell University; and Derek Freres, University of Pennsylvania, who surveyed 2,489 people between the age of 40 to 70 years with respect to their media usage.
Earlier analysis of studies suggested that continuous and frequent television viewing stimulates fatalism associated with disease of cancer. However, the recent findings suggests that this is not the same in case of Internet usage.
People who are used to look for online information on health regularly, including the prevention and diagnosis of cancer, are less likely to treat this disease as something inevitable or dependent on fate, the researchers said.
"Many Americans believe that cancer is a fate. Reduce the sense of fatalism associated with cancer, especially among people with low socio-economic status, is probably one of the most important tasks in the field of public health "- says study author Chul-joo Lee. (PAP).
The details of the study has been published in the Journal of Communication.
-With inputs from ANI
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