The CMIS has been empirically tested in health and organizational contextsJohnson , J. D., & Meischke, H. (1993). Cancer-related channel selection: An extensionfor a sample of women who have had a mammogram. Women & Health, 20, 31-44.; Johnson, J. D., Donohue, W. A., Atkin, C. K., & Johnson, S. H. (1995). A comprehensive model of information seeking: Tests focusing on a technical organization. Science Communication, 16, 274-303. The CMIS has inherent strengths for studying how people react to health problems such as cancer.Johnson, J. D., Andrews, J. E. & Allard, S. (2001). A Model for Understanding and Affecting Genetics Information Seeking. Library and Information Science Research 23(4): 335-349. The CMIS specifies antecedents that explain why people become information seekers, information carrier characteristics that shape how people go about looking for information, and  information seeking actions  that reflect the nature of the search itself.
The CMIS has been empirically tested in health and organizational contexts.Johnson , J. D., & Meischke, H. (1993). Cancer-related channel selection: An extensionfor a sample of women who have had a mammogram. Women & Health, 20, 31-44.; Johnson, J. D., Donohue, W. A., Atkin, C. K., & Johnson, S. H. (1995). A comprehensive model of information seeking: Tests focusing on a technical organization. Science Communication, 16, 274-303. It has inherent strengths for studying how people react to health problems such as cancer.Johnson, J. D., Andrews, J. E. & Allard, S. (2001). A Model for Understanding and Affecting Genetics Information Seeking. Library and Information Science Research 23(4): 335-349. It specifies "antecedents" that explain why people become information seekers, "information carrier characteristic" that shape how they go about looking for information, and " information seeking actions " that reflect the nature of the search itself.
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