Using Storybooks to Teach Children About Illness Transmission and Promote Adaptive Health Behavior - A Pilot Study.

ABSTRACT: Although there is a large and growing literature on children's developing concepts of illness transmission, little is known about how children develop contagion knowledge before formal schooling begins and how these informal learning experiences can impact children's health behaviors. Here, we asked two important questions: first, do children's informal learning experiences, such as their experiences reading storybooks, regularly contain causal information about illness transmission; and second, what is the impact of this type of experience on children's developing knowledge and behavior? In Study 1, we examined whether children's commercial books about illness regularly contain contagion-relevant causal information. In Study 2, we ran a pilot study examining whether providing children wit

SUBMITTER: Conrad M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7289927 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature