From Searching to Coping, How Chinese Patients With Breast Cancer Navigate Web-Based Health Information: Semistructured Interview Study

This study reveals that the experiences of patients with breast cancer within web-based health information environments resemble an information navigation journey. Patients continuously search, evaluate, and adjust within the sea of information to maintain cognitive clarity and emotional equilibrium. The findings offer valuable insights for clinical health care providers, health information platform developers, and policymakers. They can help optimize digital health services and design personalized information support that better meets patients' needs.