Online Health Information Seeking by Parents for Their Children: Systematic Review and Agenda for Further Research.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parents commonly use the internet to search for information about their child's health-related symptoms and guide parental health-related decisions. Despite the impact of parental online health seeking on offline health behaviors, this area of research remains understudied. Previous literature has not adequately distinguished searched behaviors when searching for oneself or one`s child.

Objective

The purpose of this review is to examine prevalences and associated variables of parent-child online health information seeking; investigate parents' health-related online behavior regarding how they find, use, and evaluate information; and identify barriers and concerns that they experience during the search. Based on this analysis, we develop a conceptual model of poten

SUBMITTER: Kubb C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7479585 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature