Parents' health information seeking behaviour - does the child's health status play a role?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digital media are increasingly abundant providing a wide scope of health information. To date, very little is known about parental health information seeking behaviour for child health outside of English-speaking and Nordic countries. Our study "Digital parental counsellors" examines how parents search for health information in digital media, print media and among "personal contacts", distinguishing between the search for information about general child health and development and child's acute illness, and comparing information seeking behaviour by disability status of the child.

Methods

The population-based sample consisted of 769 parents with children aged 0-2 in the German-speaking region of Switzerland returning the study questionnaire (30% response rate). We

SUBMITTER: Baumann I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7730778 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature