For the poll, researchers interviewed 1,019 U.S. adults by telephone between Aug. 19 and Aug. 15. They found that 39% of respondents said that they “often” went online to search for health information, up from 22% in 2009 and 32% in 2010.
In addition, the poll found that:
69% of respondents said they had used search engines in the past month to find health information;
62% of respondents said they used medical websites during the past month to look up health data; and
55% of respondents said they had talked with their physicians about information they obtained on the Internet (United Press International, 9/18).
