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August 20, 2026Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Failure in research? A methodological reflection on researching information behavior among older adults with diabetes in real‐world settings

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XZXiaoqian ZhangSYShun YangYWYintao Wang

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Methodological analysis reveals practical barriers to standardized survey administration among older adults with type 2 diabetes, highlighting the need for socially adaptive research designs.

Key Points

  • To examine the hidden assumptions embedded in standardized survey administration and analyze methodological challenges encountered when studying information behavior among older adults with type 2 diabetes.
  • Conducted five pilot investigations across distinct environments, including hospital outpatient clinics, rural households, senior learning centers, residential care facilities, and social media platforms.
  • Documented iterative questionnaire redesigns and applied a process-oriented methodological reflexivity framework to evaluate real-world field constraints.
  • Standardized survey completion was systematically constrained by physical environments, relational dynamics, institutional gatekeepers, and participant perceptions of legitimacy.
  • Participant engagement functioned as a trust-mediated and socially structured process, challenging the standard methodological assumption of the autonomous survey respondent.

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Zhang et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a86b5da8a91293e6a1cd5bdhttps://doi.org/10.1002/asi.70112
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