Understanding Information Needs and Barriers to Accessing Health Information Across All Stages of Pregnancy: Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding consumers' health information needs across all stages of the pregnancy trajectory is crucial to the development of mechanisms that allow them to retrieve high-quality, customized, and layperson-friendly health information.

Objective

The objective of this study was to identify research gaps in pregnancy-related consumer information needs and available information from different sources.

Methods

We conducted a systematic review of CINAHL, Cochrane, PubMed, and Web of Science for relevant articles that were published from 2009 to 2019. The quality of the included articles was assessed using the Critical Appraisal Skills Program. A descriptive data analysis was performed on these articles. Based on the review result, we developed the Pregnancy Inf

SUBMITTER: Lu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8902674 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature