The Impact of Self-awareness of Being Observed on Patient Content Generation: An Empirical Examination from a Quasi Experiment

dc.contributor.author Hu, Mingye
dc.contributor.author Liu, Xiaoxiao
dc.contributor.author Xiao, Bo Sophia
dc.contributor.author Shao, Jingbo
dc.date.accessioned 2019-01-02T23:45:52Z
dc.date.available 2019-01-02T23:45:52Z
dc.date.issued 2019-01-08
dc.description.abstract Though recent research demonstrates the impact of patient generated content on patient outcomes and doctor performance, we still have a limited understanding about how patient content is generated in the first place. In this research, we examine how patients’ self-awareness of being observed by their own doctors in online healthcare platform influences patient generated content, including how much they generate and what they generate. Focusing on a leading online healthcare platform, we construct a panel dataset of patient generated content for a matched set of doctors. We find that patients’ self-awareness of being observed can increase the quantity of patient generated content. Specially, “being observed” leads to more subjective content, while it has no relationship with objective content. Our results also demonstrate that the mechanism of “being observed” benefits the review quantity at the cost of review quality. We also discuss contributions to user generated content and online healthcare.
dc.format.extent 10 pages
dc.identifier.doi 10.24251/HICSS.2019.100
dc.identifier.isbn 978-0-9981331-2-6
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/59522
dc.language.iso eng
dc.relation.ispartof Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject Social Media and e-Business Transformation
dc.subject Collaboration Systems and Technologies
dc.subject being observed, difference-in-difference, online healthcare platform, patient generated content, quasi-experiment
dc.title The Impact of Self-awareness of Being Observed on Patient Content Generation: An Empirical Examination from a Quasi Experiment
dc.type Conference Paper
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