More AI, Less Care-Seeking? A National Survey Experiment on the Impact of AI Intensity on Patient Care-Seeking Intention in Chinese Family Doctor Services.

Healthcare (Basel) · 2026 · PMC13116385 · PMID 42072922

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

Although conditional effects analysis suggested potential buffering effects, the effect did not reach statistical significance.

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At low intensity, Medical LLMs buffered 48.6% of the negative effect (Δ = 0.34 points, SE_pooled = 0.10, t = 3.40, p < 0.001), representing a substantial and highly significant recovery, nearly half of the intention loss from AI integration was offset.

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