To cap off National Women’s Health Week, Healthcake is releasing the results of a recent online study it conducted of women’s health concerns and the sources of insight they rely on for answers.

The research targeted a sample of 400 women between ages 18 and 54 who live in Texas. It revealed that 43% of women represented in the target sample are conducting health searches online at least once per month. They are hunting for explanations of symptoms, conditions and treatments in 57%, 38% and 24% of cases, respectively. This insight points to how a sudden symptom or a recent diagnosis is a familiar trigger of health inquiries online. Not surprisingly, doctors were the preferred source of information among 67% of respondents. Perhaps it’s more interesting to note that when asked about their preferred sources of information, 30% of women in the survey also responded “People like me” while 27% said nurses and 27% chose survivors. Among the topics respondents are interested in, some of the more commons ones were weight, pain, cancer, diabetes, depression and mental health.

Figure 1: Texas Women’s Health Online Data Visualization

Source: TexasWomenHealthOnline-Visualization