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
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
Publications
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Toward a digital child health booklet
2022 Dratva, Julia; Stronski, Susanne
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Digital health information seeking of migrant populations : a scoping review
2020 Zysset, Annina; Dratva, Julia
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Digital maternal health booklets – do they help reaching migrant populations
2020 Zysset, Annina; Dratva, Julia
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Electronic health literacy in Swiss-German parents : cross-sectional study of eHealth literacy scale unidimensionality
2020 Juvalta, Sibylle; Kerry-Krause, Matthew J.; Jaks, Rebecca; Baumann, Isabel; Dratva, Julia
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Digitale Elternratgeber : Verwendung, Potential und Risiko digitaler Medien als Informationsressource zu Kindergesundheit
2020 Dratva, Julia; Robin, Dominik
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Digitales Gesundheitsheft : SGP
2020 Dratva, Julia
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Parents’ health information seeking behaviour : does the child’s health status play a role?
2020 Baumann, Isabel; Jaks, Rebecca; Robin, Dominik; Juvalta, Sibylle; Dratva, Julia
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Application of the eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS) in a sample of Swiss parents
2019 Juvalta, Sibylle; Kerry-Krause, Matthew J.; Baumann, Isabel; Jaks, Rebecca; Robin, Dominik; Dratva, Julia
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Health information seeking behaviour of Swiss German parents
2019 Juvalta, Sibylle; Jaks, Rebecca; Robin, Dominik; Baumann, Isabel; Dratva, Julia
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Parental digital health information seeking behavior in Switzerland: a cross-sectional study
2019 Jaks, Rebecca; Baumann, Isabel; Juvalta, Sibylle; Dratva, Julia
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Digital health literacy of health care profession students
2019 Dratva, Julia; Juvalta, Sibylle; Gemperle, Michael; Scheermesser, Mandy; Händler-Schuster, Daniela; Klamroth-Marganska, Verena
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“Dear Internet, what should I do when…?”: parents’ digital media behaviour when searching for information on children’s health in Switzerland
2018 Baumann, Isabelle; Jaks, Rebecca; Robin, Dominik; Juvalta, Sibylle; Dratva, Julia
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