How adolescents use technology for health information: implications for health professionals from focus group studies.
How adolescents use technology for health information: implications for health professionals from focus group studies.
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DOI：
10.2196/jmir.5.4.e32
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发表时间：
2003-12-18
影响因子：
7.4
通讯作者：
Goldberg E
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文献类型：
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作者：
Skinner H;Biscope S;Poland B;Goldberg E
在向青少年提供有效的预防服务和保健方面，青少年面临许多挑战。然而，他们通常是新技术（如互联网）的早期采用者。这为通过电子医疗吸引年轻人创造了重要机会。描述青少年如何利用技术满足他们的健康信息需求，确定他们面临的挑战，并强调卫生专业人员在青少年电子卫生服务方面的一些新角色。使用归纳定性研究设计，27个焦点小组进行了安大略，加拿大。选择210名参与者（55%女性，45%男性;中位年龄16岁），以反映年龄，性别，地理位置，文化身份和风险的多样性。一个由8人组成的团队根据主要主题对数据进行分析和编码。研究参与者最常寻求或分发与学校（89%），与朋友互动（85%），社会问题（85%），特定医疗条件（67%），身体形象和营养（63%），暴力和人身安全（59%）和性健康（56%）相关的信息。寻找与个人相关的高质量信息是一项关键挑战，这对青少年可以找到的回答其健康问题的信息的深度和类型产生了影响。获取信息技术方面的隐私是第二个关键挑战。参与者报告说，他们使用的技术沿着一个从高度互动到固定信息源的连续统一体分为4个领域：（1）个人通信：电话、手机和寻呼机;（2）社会通信：电子邮件、即时消息、聊天和公告板;（3）互动环境：网站、搜索引擎和计算机;以及（4）单向来源：电视、广播和印刷品。在电子保健方面，保健专业人员的三个新角色包括：（1）为青少年提供技术接口，并协助他们寻找相关信息来源;（2）通过扩大从业人员的可用方式和时间，加强与青年的联系;（3）培养青年人的关键评估技能，以评估保健信息的质量。这项研究有助于阐明青少年的健康信息需求，他们使用的信息技术，以及卫生专业人员的新兴角色。研究结果可以为青少年群体设计和更有效地使用电子健康应用程序提供信息。
Adolescents present many challenges in providing them effective preventive services and health care. Yet, they are typically the early adopters of new technology (eg, the Internet). This creates important opportunities for engaging youths via eHealth. To describe how adolescents use technology for their health-information needs, identify the challenges they face, and highlight some emerging roles of health professionals regarding eHealth services for adolescents. Using an inductive qualitative research design, 27 focus groups were conducted in Ontario, Canada. The 210 participants (55% female, 45% male; median age 16 years) were selected to reflect diversity in age, sex, geographic location, cultural identity, and risk. An 8-person team analyzed and coded the data according to major themes. Study participants most-frequently sought or distributed information related to school (89%), interacting with friends (85%), social concerns (85%), specific medical conditions (67%), body image and nutrition (63%), violence and personal safety (59%), and sexual health (56%). Finding personally-relevant, high-quality information was a pivotal challenge that has ramifications on the depth and types of information that adolescents can find to answer their health questions. Privacy in accessing information technology was a second key challenge. Participants reported using technologies that clustered into 4 domains along a continuum from highly-interactive to fixed information sources: (1) personal communication: telephone, cell phone, and pager; (2) social communication: e-mail, instant messaging, chat, and bulletin boards; (3) interactive environments: Web sites, search engines, and computers; and (4) unidirectional sources: television, radio, and print. Three emerging roles for health professionals in eHealth include: (1) providing an interface for adolescents with technology and assisting them in finding pertinent information sources; (2) enhancing connection to youths by extending ways and times when practitioners are available; and (3) fostering critical appraisal skills among youths for evaluating the quality of health information. This study helps illuminate adolescent health-information needs, their use of information technologies, and emerging roles for health professionals. The findings can inform the design and more-effective use of eHealth applications for adolescent populations.
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影响因子：
7.4
作者：
Hansen, Derek L.;Derry, Holly A.;Resnick, Paul J.;Richardson, Caroline R.
通讯作者：
Richardson, Caroline R.
DOI：
10.1177/102538239700400411
发表时间：
1997-12-01
期刊：
Promotion & education
影响因子：
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作者：
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通讯作者：
Weir, N
影响因子：
7.6
作者：
Ho, SMY;Lee, TMC
通讯作者：
Lee, TMC
影响因子：
5.4
作者：
Skinner, H;Biscope, S;Poland, B
通讯作者：
Poland, B
影响因子：
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作者：
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通讯作者：
Rickert, VI