Impacts of educational interventions of librarian instruction on health information seeking attitudes and behaviors in an employee wellness program.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Health literacy and its potential impacts on the wellbeing of patrons remain a highly regarded objective among health science and medical librarians when considering learning outcomes of patron communities. Librarians are positioned to champion literacy instruction activities. This study aimed to examine health information seeking attitudes and behaviors in an academic-based employee wellness program before and after health literacy workshops were developed and facilitated by an academic health sciences librarian.

Methods

The intervention included instruction informed by Don Nutbeam's Health Literacy Framework and the Research Triangle Institute's Health Literacy Conceptual Framework. Sixty-five participants obtained through convenience sampling attended workshops

SUBMITTER: Foy CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11305465 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature