Examining the experiences of Indigenous families seeking health information about caring for sick or injured children: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Mapping literature on Indigenous families' experiences seeking child health information and identifying barriers and facilitators to information access.

Design

Scoping review.

Data sources

We searched Medline, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Scopus and CINAHL for peer-reviewed literature and Google Advanced for grey literature. We screened tables of contents of two Indigenous research journals not consistently indexed in online health databases and used snowball sampling to supplement searches.

Eligibility criteria

We included full-text, English-language articles, published from 2000 to the time of the search in April 2021, based on: participants (Indigenous families), concept (experiences of families seeking health information) and context (child health).

Data

SUBMITTER: Knisley L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10040012 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature