{"id":199007,"date":"2026-03-25T05:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/kff-tracking-poll-on-health-information-and-trust-use-of-ai-for-health-information-and-advice\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T05:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:25:12","slug":"kff-tracking-poll-on-health-information-and-trust-use-of-ai-for-health-information-and-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/kff-tracking-poll-on-health-information-and-trust-use-of-ai-for-health-information-and-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: Use of AI For Health Information and Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/public-opinion\/kff-tracking-poll-on-health-information-and-trust-use-of-ai-for-health-information-and-advice\/\">KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: Use of AI For Health Information and Advice<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/public-opinion\/kff-tracking-poll-on-health-information-and-trust-use-of-ai-for-health-information-and-advice\/\">https:\/\/www.kff.org\/public-opinion\/kff-tracking-poll-on-health-information-and-trust-use-of-ai-for-health-information-and-advice\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-25 05:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.kff.org\">www.kff.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Usage for Health Information<\/strong>: Approximately 32% of adults are using AI tools for health information and advice, with 29% seeking physical health advice and 16% seeking mental health advice in the past year.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Demographic Trends<\/strong>: Younger adults, uninsured adults, and minority groups (Black and Hispanic) are more likely to use AI for mental health advice compared to older, insured, and White adults.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Driving Factors<\/strong>: Most AI users (65%) want quick and immediate health advice, many to research before seeing a healthcare provider (41%) or because they feel more comfortable looking up health questions privately (36%). Some also face difficulties accessing or affording healthcare.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Privacy Concerns and Data Upload<\/strong>: While 77% of the public is concerned about the privacy of personal medical information shared with AI tools, 41% of those using AI for physical or mental health still upload personal medical data, indicating a complex relationship with privacy concerns.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Satisfaction and Trust<\/strong>: Despite privacy worries, most AI users are somewhat satisfied with the quality of health responses (92% for physical health, 85% for mental health). Trust in AI for health information varies, being higher among users and lower among non-users.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Usage Patterns<\/strong>: Most users seek general health information or symptoms (27%) about physical health and advice for mental health issues (11%) through AI tools.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Consultation Follow-up<\/strong>: While most users follow up with healthcare providers after AI consultations, younger adults are more likely not to follow up after AI interactions compared to older adults.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Reliability Perception<\/strong>: While about 18% believe AI is as reliable as healthcare providers, 65% consider this a minor reason for using AI.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: Use of AI For Health Information and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/03\/260324_Reasons-Adults-Turned-to-AI-for-Health-Advice_FI.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199009,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199007\/revisions\/199009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}