“When it’s Time to Come Together, We Come Together”: Reconceptualizing Theories of Self-efficacy for Health Information Practices within LGBTQIA+ Communities

Vera, A. Nick; Wagner, Travis L.; Kitzie, Vanessa

doi:10.1108/s0065-283020200000047013

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“…First, most literature frames these practices as uninformed or risky (Jia et al, 2021). However, these practices are informed and agentic in context (Vera et al, 2020). This assumption of risk has implications for information professionals as it sustains a myopic focus on a small subset of health behaviors (Jia et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…LGBTQIA+ people create, seek, use, and share alternative, identity-affirming health information within communal spaces (Kitzie et al, 2020b). Deficit-based perspectives employed by practitioners assume that if LGBTQIA+ people do not use formal health information systems and resources, they are operating from a site of ignorance rather than intentional and agentic resilience (Vera et al, 2020). These assumptions devalue their embodied, experiential, and community-centric knowledge.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Understanding the Information Creation Practices of LGBTQIA+ Community Health Workers

Kitzie

Vera

Wagner

2022

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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This paper reports on preliminary findings from an action research project partnering health sciences librarians with community health workers (CHWs) who are LGBTQIA+ to create information resources for the CHW’s community. Findings report on twelve virtual semistructured interviews with CHWs from South Carolina and eleven virtual brainstorming meetings between CHWs and health sciences librarians. The authors analyzed verbatim interview and meeting transcripts using a combination of deductive and inductive qualitative coding. Findings demonstrate 1) external barriers constrain and motivate information creation; 2) the presence of preexisting information, knowledge, and resources within the CHWs’ communities; 3) that CHW‐librarian pairs brainstormed how to codify and iterate what already exists; 4) that librarians adopted a reference role when brainstorming and suggested resource ideas within and outside of the CHWs’ communities. Implications include strategies that researchers and practitioners can adopt to leverage existing experiential and embodied knowledge within LGBTQIA+ communities.

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Understanding the Information Creation Practices of LGBTQIA+ Community Health Workers

Kitzie

Vera

Wagner

2022

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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“…In response to these exclusions, LGBTQIA+ communities engage in affirming, innovative, community-centered health information practices. These health information practices combat misperceptions about LGBTQIA+ populations as being information-poor or lacking in self-efficacy when seeking and utilizing health information resources (Vera et al , 2020). Examples of efficacious health information practices span seeking, sharing, use and creation.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“What is a wave but 1000 drops working together?”: The role of public libraries in addressing LGBTQIA+ health information disparities

Kitzie,

Vera,

Lookingbill

et al. 2023

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PurposeThis paper presents results from a participatory action research study with 46 LGBTQIA+ community leaders and 60 library workers who participated in four community forums at public libraries across the US. The forums identified barriers to LGBTQIA+ communities addressing their health questions and concerns and explored strategies for public libraries to tackle them.Design/methodology/approachForums followed the World Café format to facilitate collaborative knowledge development and promote participant-led change. Data sources included collaborative notes taken by participants and observational researcher notes. Data analysis consisted of emic/etic qualitative coding.FindingsResults revealed that barriers experienced by LGBTQIA+ communities are structurally and socially entrenched and require systematic changes. Public libraries must expand their strategies beyond collection development and one-off programming to meet these requirements. Suggested strategies include outreach and community engagement and mutual aid initiatives characterized by explicit advocacy for LGBTQIA+ communities and community organizing approaches.Research limitations/implicationsLimitations include the sample's lack of racial diversity and the gap in the data collection period between forums due to COVID-19. Public libraries can readily adopt strategies overviewed in this paper for LGBTQIA+ health promotion.Originality/valueThis research used a unique methodology within the Library and Information Science (LIS) field to engage LGBTQIA+ community leaders and library workers in conversations about how public libraries can contribute to LGBTQIA+ health promotion. Prior research has often captured these perspectives separately. Uniting the groups facilitated understanding of each other's strengths and challenges, identifying strategies more relevant than asking either group alone.

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“…Specifically, research and conceptual applications of queer theory demonstrate how normative ideologies often label LGBTQIA+ health practices as "risky" and "uninformed" (Halberstam, 2011). These practices are hardly negative and function as agentic responses and resistance to health injustices (Vera et al, 2020).…”

Section: Queer Theorymentioning

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Combatting Health Information Injustices for Community-based Health Promotion: A Curricular Outline

Kitzie

Wagner²,

Francis³

et al. 2022

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This paper addresses limitations of LIS education at the intersection of consumer health, community engagement, and amplifying marginalized voices. The authors propose a curricular outline for an MLIS course on community-based health promotion taught by community health workers (CHWs) who are LGBTQIA+. Queer theory and participatory learning inform this outline, serving as lenses for understanding health information injustices and leveraging community-based strengths to address them. The proposed curriculum utilizes existing research, training, and partnerships between the authors, CHW training specialists, and LGBTQIA+ CHWs. The latter received training using elements of the proposed curriculum and substantiated its offerings with their embodied knowledge and lived experiences. We plan on implementing this curricular outline in Spring 2023.

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“When it’s Time to Come Together, We Come Together”: Reconceptualizing Theories of Self-efficacy for Health Information Practices within LGBTQIA+ Communities

Cited by 8 publications

References 28 publications

Understanding the Information Creation Practices of LGBTQIA+ Community Health Workers

Understanding the Information Creation Practices of LGBTQIA+ Community Health Workers

“What is a wave but 1000 drops working together?”: The role of public libraries in addressing LGBTQIA+ health information disparities

Combatting Health Information Injustices for Community-based Health Promotion: A Curricular Outline

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