Digital Parent Advisor

Description

Parents and particularly young mothers increasingly use the internet to obtain information about child health and child development. In Switzerland there are no data on the prevalence of parents' use of digital information sources related to child health and development. Most importantly, in Switzerland as well as internationally, there is a lack of data on patterns of use and understanding of how child health information obtained via digital media and social networks influences the interaction of parents with their pediatrician. It is crucial to close this research gap as, on one hand, digital health information has the potential to improve parents' health literacy and, on the other hand, pedi-atricians and parents need to deal with possible anxiety and misunderstandings invoked by the infor-mation and with the differing quality of the online contents.

Key Data

Projectlead

Prof. Dr. Julia Dratva

Project team

Prof. Dr. Isabel Baumann, Rebecca Jaks, Sibylle Juvalta, Dominik Robin, Dr. Susanne Stronski Huwiler

Project status

completed, 10/2017 - 11/2018

Funding partner

Schweizerische Akademie der Medizinischen Wissenschaften SAMW / Käthe-Zingg-Schwichtenberg-Fonds

Further documents and links

Digitale Elternratgeber

Publications

Open Data

Replication data for: Parental digital media behaviour when searching for information on children’s health in Switzerland

2019 Robin, Dominik; Baumann, Isabel; Jaks, Rebecca; Juvalta, Sibylle; Dratva, Julia

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