Gul Seckin

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book Chapter

• Seckin, G. (2024). Augmenting Inequality: Socio-Technical Transformation of Medicine and Challenges to Digital Health Citizenship (DHC) in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI). 142-162. US, Routledge.
• Seckin, G., Hughes, S., Hudson, C., Laljer, D., Yeatts, D.E., Hale, T.M., Chou, S.Y., Cotten, S.R., Khilnani , A. (2018). Positive impacts of online health information seeking on health perceptions.. eHealth: Current evidence, promises, perils, and future directions, Studies in media and communications.. 15 205-240. Bingley, United Kingdom, Emerald Publishing Limited.
• Seckin, G., Tettegah, S., Evie Garcia, Y.E. (2016). Digitized emotions in the pocket: Social computing and mobile mental health (mMH) applications.. Emotions, Technology, and Health. 41-61. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Academic Press, Elsevier.
• Seckin, G. (2012). Cyber patients’ self-health care management. 1 722-734. Hershey, Pensylavania, IGI Global.
• Kahana, E., Kahana, B., Kercher, k., Seckin, G., Stange, K. (2007). Changing health care experiences and perspectives of older adults: Comparisons of HMO and fee-for-service enrollees. Research in Sociology of Health Care.

Conference Proceeding

• Seckin, G. (2014). Health information on the Web and Consumer Perspective on Health Professionals' Responses to information Exchange. Medicine 2.0 Proceedings of the World Congress on Social Media in Medicine, Health, and Biomedical Research. 3 e4.
• Seckin, G. (2011). Health: Opportunities and challenges of technology-integrated health management.. Athens Institute for Education and Research..
• Seckin, G. (2007). Psychological support using the internet: Who joins online cancer support groups and patterns of participation.

Encyclopedia Article

• Seckin, G., Kahana, E., Yan, Z. (2015). Smart phone health application. The Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior. 2 898-905. Hershey, Pensylavania, IGI.
• Seckin, G., Cockerham, W.C., Dingwall, R., . Quah, S.R. (2014). Online health information seeking and gender.. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society.. 1-3. Oxford, Blackwell Publishing. . https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118410868.wbehibs176

Journal Article

• Seckin, G., Hughes, S., Campbell, P., Lawson, M. (2021). In Internet We Trust: Intersectionality of Distrust and Patient Non-Adherence. Information, Communication, & Society. 24 (5) 751-771.
• Seckin, G., Hughes, S. (2021). In Sickness and in Health: Patient-Reported Outcomes in a Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Survey of Older Internet Users. Journal of Medical Internet Research Aging. 4 ((4):e16006)
• Seckin, G. (2020). Expansion of Parson's sick role into cyberspace: Patient information consumerism and subjective health in a representative sample of U.S. internet users. Social Science & Medicine. 247 112733 (p. 1-10). https://doi.org.10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112733
• Seckin, G., Hughes, S., Yeatts, D., Degreve, T. (2019). Digital Pathways to Positive Health Perceptions: Does Age Moderate the Relationship Between Medical Satisfaction and Positive Health Perceptions among Middle-Aged and Older Internet Users?. Innovation in Aging. 3 (1) 1-14. Gerontological Society of America.
• Yeatts, D.E., Seckin, G., Shen, Y., Thompson, M.F., Auden, D., Cready, C.M. (2018). Burnout among Direct-Care Workers in Nursing Homes: Influences of Organizational, Work Place, Interpersonal and Personal Characteristics. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 27 (19-20) 3652-3665. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jocn.14267
• Seckin, G., Yeatts, D., Hughes, S., Hudson, C., Bell, V. (2016). Being an informed consumer of health information and assessment of electronic health literacy in a national sample of internet users.. Journal of Medical Internet Research.
• Yeatts, D., Shen, Y., Yeatts, P., Solakoglu, O., Seckin, G. (2016). Shared decision making in nursing homes: Factors associated with the empowerment of direct care workers. Journal of Aging and Health.
• seckin, g. (2013). Using hierarchical multivariate analysis to examine interactions between alternative appraisals of cancer and virtual health support among older internet users: Predicting positive self-reappraisal after cancer.. Research on Aging. 35 (6) 686-707.
• Seckin, G. (2013). Satisfaction with health status among cyber patients: Testing a mediation model of electronic coping support. Behaviour & Information Technology. 32 (1) 901-101.
• Seckin, G. (2011). I am proud and hopeful: Age-based comparisons in reports of positive coping affect among online women living with cancer and perceived benefits of peer support on the Internet. Journal of Psychosocial Oncology. 29 (5) 573-591.
• Seckin, G. (2011). Informational and decisional empowerment in online health support communities: initial psychometric validation of the Cyber Info-Decisional Empowerment Scale (CIDES) and preliminary data from administration of the scale, Supportive Care in Cancer,. 19 2057- 2061.
• Seckin, G. (2010). Cyber patients surfing the medical web: Computer-mediated medical knowledge and perceived benefits. Computers in Human Behavior. 26 1694-1700..
• Seckin, G. (2010). Patients as information managers: The Internet for successful self-health care and illness management. International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations. 10 (1) 99-116.
• Seckin, G. (2010). Patients as information managers: The Internet for successful self-health care and illness management. Bentham Science Journal. 4 36-42.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Contract

• Seckin, G., "Health, Aging, Technology," sponsored by NIH, Federal, $8000 Funded. (2009 - 2010).

Fellowship

• Seckin, G. (Principal), "Junior Faculty Grant by the Office of the Vice President," University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2015 - 2015).

Grant - Research

• Seckin, G., "Faculty Success Summer Grant," University of North Texas, $2800 Funded. (2021 - 2021).
• Seckin, G., "Health Literacy, Aging, and Technology," sponsored by Scholarly and Creative Activity Award by the Office of the Vice President for Research, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2017 - 2017).
• Seckin, G., "Development and Testing Efficacy of Patient Centered and Health Information and Communication Technology (PC-HICT) Integrated Medical Care Model: A Longitudinal Randomized Clinical Trail," sponsored by University of Maryland Baltimore County, Other, $20000 Funded. (2011 - 2012).