Perceptions and use of sources of health knowledge by young adolescents

Racey, Megan; Machmueller, David; Field, David; Kulak, Verena; Newton, Genevieve

doi:10.1515/ijamh-2016-0002

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“…For instance, 72.4% believed that antibiotics can cure viral infections. Knowledge is a prerequisite for behaviour change, providing individuals with basic information for health decision-making [ 27 , 28 ]. Nevertheless, no significant association was found between antibiotic knowledge and SMA in current study.…”

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Prevalence of self-medication with antibiotics and its related factors among Chinese residents: a cross-sectional study

Yin

Yang

et al. 2021

Antimicrob Resist Infect Control

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Background Self-medication is one of the most common forms of inappropriate use of antibiotics. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of self-medication with antibiotics (SMA) in China and evaluate the related factors. Methods A cross-sectional survey was conducted in Wuhan, Hubei, China from July 1, 2019 to July 31, 2019. Participants were recruited in public places to answer a structured questionnaire. The information of participants’ social demographic characteristics, antibiotic knowledge and health beliefs were collected. Binary Logistics regression analysis was used to examine the associated factors of SMA. Results Of the 3206 participants, 10.32% reported SMA in the past 6 months. Participants who with middle or high perceived barriers to seek health care services showed a higher likelihood of SMA (P < 0.05). Participants who with middle or high perceived threats of self-medication, and who with middle or high self-efficacy to overcome obstacles showed a lower likelihood of SMA (P < 0.05). Conclusions Compared with developed countries, the prevalence of SMA in China is still higher. Measures to conduct public health education and improve the accessibility of health services are crucial to decrease the overall self-medication rate in China.

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Prevalence of self-medication with antibiotics and its related factors among Chinese residents: a cross-sectional study

Yin

Yang

et al. 2021

Antimicrob Resist Infect Control

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“…The term “disintermediation” has been coined to describe this development [ 36 ]. It promises greater access to health information, especially in sensitive areas such as sexual health [ 9 ]. However, it also bears the risk that incorrect information is accessed and perceived as accurate [ 17 , 37 ].…”

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“…Several studies show that the vast majority of adolescents look for health information online [ 4 - 6 ]. Of particular interest for teenagers is sexual health, an area raising a multitude of questions perceived as embarrassing, controversial, or sensitive [ 5 - 9 ]. The threshold for adolescents to search for answers to these questions is lowered by the anonymous nature of the Internet, its easy and quick availability, and its low cost [ 10 , 11 ].…”

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Sexual Health and the Internet: Cross-Sectional Study of Online Preferences Among Adolescents

Rosen

Tinnemann

et al. 2017

J Med Internet Res

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BackgroundThe Internet is widely used by adolescents for sexual health information and bears the potential to increase knowledge and positively affect behavior.ObjectiveThe objective of this study is to assess students’ preferences when looking for sexual health information online.MethodsWe conducted a cross-sectional survey among ninth grade students in a convenience sample of 13 secondary schools in Berlin, Germany. During a regular school period, participants were requested to rate the importance they attribute to nine aspects of sexual health websites in a paper-based questionnaire. Bivariate and multivariable analyses were used to assess awareness and preferences by gender, age, migrant background, and school type.ResultsOf 1190 eligible students, 1177 (98.91%) students with a mean age of 14.6 (SD 0.7) years participated, 52.52% (605/1152) were male, and 52.94% (612/1156) had at least one parent born abroad. Participant numbers were spread equally across three types of secondary schools in Berlin. Website aspects most frequently cited as important were easily comprehensible wording (88.33%, 961/1088), clear information layout (80.57%, 871/1081), and reliability of the website’s publisher (79.28%, 857/1081), whereas the visual style of a website was deemed important by the lowest number of students (35.13%, 378/1076). There was a marked gender difference in the importance students attached to website publisher reliability. Although 437/515 (84.9%) of female participants regarded this as important, only 420/566 (74.2%) of male participants did likewise (P<.001). In multivariable analyses, demographic differences were also particularly visible in the importance of publisher reliability: male participants were significantly less likely to find this aspect important (OR 0.50, 95% CI 0.37-0.69). The odds ratio for students with migrant background was 0.64 (95% CI 0.50-0.81, reference=no migrant background) and OR 2.04 (95% CI 1.03-4.03) for students in the most academic school type (reference=least academic).ConclusionsStudents prefer easily understandable online resources. Setting up sexual health websites according to the explicit preferences of the target audience might encourage usage, especially by those subpopulations less likely to critically assess information validity: male adolescents, children of immigrants, and the academically disadvantaged.

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“…However, in this technologically advanced generation, communication in the online platform has become more prevalent. People do not only share the trivialities of everyday life online, they can also obtain and discuss health-related topics (Miller & Bell, 2012;Racey, Machmueller, Field, Kulak, & Newton, 2016). The superiority of the online world over the offline one featured at its restricted social cues and anonymous nature, in which information sharing and even self-disclosure are less vulnerable to named criticism (The superiority of the online world over the offline one featured at its restricted social cues and anonymous nature et al, 2002) while without dwindling the social support one can receive.…”

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Relationship between stressful life events, stigma and life satisfaction with the willingness of disclosure of psychotic illness: A community study in Hong Kong

Suen

Chan

Siu

et al. 2020

Early Intervention Psych

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Aim: The preference of and potential barriers to disclosure of psychotic illness vary across cultures. Studying its patterns and correlates can guide the design of future culture-specific intervention and public education approaches to improve willingness to disclose and thereby reducing the duration of untreated psychosis (DUP).Methods: A population-based, random telephone survey was conducted with a total of 1514 respondents in Hong Kong in January 2018. Cross-sectional data on willingness to disclose psychotic illness, life satisfaction, stigmatizing attitude and recent experience of stressful life events (SLEs) were analysed against age and gender using structural equation modelling (SEM).Results: Unwillingness to disclose to anyone was reported by 12% of the participants.Family was reported as the preferred disclosure candidate by most respondents. Our model, which showed a good fit to the data demonstrated that stigmatizing attitude and life satisfaction were directly associated with willingness to disclose illness. Younger age was correlated with more recent experience of SLEs, lower life satisfaction and less willingness to disclose illness. Women's disclosure willingness was positively associated with their life satisfaction, which was sensitive to recent exposure to single SLE.In contrast, men's was negatively associated with their stigmatizing attitude, which increased significantly upon exposure to two or more recent SLEs. Conclusion:Encouraging the public to help their family to seek treatment should be a focal point of a successful mental health public education campaign. Cultural-specific and integrated interventions should be developed targeting the vulnerable groups including people with high recent life stress, particularly woman and those with younger age.

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Perceptions and use of sources of health knowledge by young adolescents

Abstract: These results should be considered in the development of interventions to improve health-related behaviour in adolescents, although future research to quantify the use of sources of health knowledge by this population is recommended.

Cited by 13 publications

References 25 publications

Prevalence of self-medication with antibiotics and its related factors among Chinese residents: a cross-sectional study

Prevalence of self-medication with antibiotics and its related factors among Chinese residents: a cross-sectional study

Sexual Health and the Internet: Cross-Sectional Study of Online Preferences Among Adolescents

Relationship between stressful life events, stigma and life satisfaction with the willingness of disclosure of psychotic illness: A community study in Hong Kong

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