Electronic health literacy in Swiss-German parents : cross-sectional study of eHealth literacy scale unidimensionality

Parents often use digital media to search for information related to their children's health. As the quantity and quality of digital sources meant specifically for parents expand, parents' digital health literacy is increasingly important to process the information they retrieve. One of the earliest developed and widely used instruments to assess digital health literacy is the self-reported eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS). However, the eHEALS has not been psychometrically validated in a sample of parents. Given the inconsistency of the eHEALS underlying factor structure across previous reports, it is particularly important for validation to occur

Parental digital health information seeking behavior in Switzerland: a cross-sectional study

Digital media are increasingly abundant and used to seek health information, however, to date very little is known on parents' seeking behavior in the context of child's health and development outside English-speaking and Scandinavian countries. By investigating the prevalence of, and reasons for use, we studied parents' perception of the Internet as a resource for improving their health-related knowledge

Jung, psychisch krank und invalidisiert

Die Zahl der jungen psychisch kranken IV-Rentnerinnen und -Rentner hat in den letzten 20 Jahren stetig zugenommen. Die vorliegende Untersuchung weist auf Mängel im Bildungs-, Behandlungs- und IV-System hin und wirft die Frage auf, ob eine relevante Minderheit von jungen Menschen nicht zu früh berentet wurde

Prognose Gesundheitsberufe Ergotherapie, Hebammen und Physiotherapie 2025

Im Unterschied zur Pflege ist der zukünftige Bedarf an Fachpersonen der Gesundheitsberufe Ergotherapie, Hebammen und Physiotherapie in der Schweiz noch nicht untersucht worden. Diese Studie entwickelt Prognoseszenarien sowohl auf der Grundlage von Statistiken des Schweizer Gesundheitswesens als auch von Expertenwissen. Der Bericht zeigt, dass in allen drei Berufen eine deutliche Zunahme des Bedarfs an Fachpersonen bis 2025 zu erwarten ist. Ob der steigende Bedarf gedeckt werden kann, hängt insbesondere von der zukünftigen Zahl der Fachhochschulabsolventen/-innen und vom Ausmass der Arbeitsmigration ab

Parents’ health information seeking behaviour : does the child’s health status play a role?

Background: Digital media are increasingly abundant providing a wide scope of health information. To date, verylittle is known about parental health information seeking behaviour for child health outside of English-speaking andNordic countries. Our study “Digital parental counsellors” examines how parents search for health information indigital media, print media and among “personal contacts”, distinguishing between the search for information aboutgeneral child health and development and child’s acute illness, and comparing information seeking behaviour bydisability status of the child. Methods: The population-based sample consisted of 769 parents with children aged 0–2 in the German-speakingregion of Switzerland returning the study questionnaire (30% response rate). We developed a frequency score ofuse of different information sources and conducted bivariate and multivariate linear regression analyses to describeparental search behaviour and the association with child’s disability status. Results: The sample consists of 88% mothers (mean age: 35.7 years SD 4.33). Children’s mean age is 16 months (SD7.1), 49% of the children are female and 6% have a disability. Parents use digital media significantly more frequentlyto search for information about general health and development questions than about an acute child’s illness (p<0.001). In case of acute child’s illness, parents refer to their paediatrician, family members and other personalcontacts significantly more frequently than other information sources (p< 0.001). The use of digital media and“personal contacts”does not significantly vary between parents with and without a disabled child, whereas the useof print media does (p< 0.02). Moreover, irrespective of disability, 45% of parents resort to the Internet prior to apaediatric visit and 27% after a visit when a visit did not answer all questions. Conclusions: Despite the high prevalence of digital media, personal contacts are still the most frequent healthinformation resource for parents with young children, irrespective of the child’s health. Parents combine allinformation resources (online, print, personal network) to improve their understanding or check the validity ofinformation received regarding their child’s health. It is thus of utmost importance, that the increasingly accesseddigital information parents search for is correct, understandable and addresses parent’s concerns. Trial registration: BASEC Req-2017-00817 (30 October 2017)