The health information literacy research project.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This research studied hospital administrators' and hospital-based health care providers' (collectively, the target group) perceived value of consumer health information resources and of librarians' roles in promoting health information literacy in their institutions.

Methods

A web-based needs survey was developed and administered to hospital administrators and health care providers. Multiple health information literacy curricula were developed. One was pilot-tested by nine hospital libraries in the United States and Canada. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used to evaluate the curriculum and its impact on the target group.

Results

A majority of survey respondents believed that providing consumer health information resources was critically important

SUBMITTER: Shipman JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2759165 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature