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dc.contributor | School of Nursing | - |
dc.creator | Lam, W | - |
dc.creator | Dawson, A | - |
dc.creator | Fowler, C | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-12-19T08:56:17Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2016-12-19T08:56:17Z | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10397/61553 | - |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Public Library of Science | en_US |
dc.rights | © 2015 Lam et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited | en_US |
dc.rights | The following publication: Lam W, Dawson A, Fowler C (2015) The Health Literacy of Hong Kong Chinese Parents with Preschool Children in Seasonal Influenza Prevention: A Multiple Case Study at Household Level. PLoS ONE 10(12): e0143844 is available at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0143844 | en_US |
dc.title | The health literacy of Hong Kong Chinese parents with preschool children in seasonal influenza prevention : a multiple case study at household level | en_US |
dc.type | Journal/Magazine Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 10 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 12 | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1371/journal.pone.0143844 | en_US |
dcterms.abstract | Background: Health literacy influences individual and family health behaviour, health services use, and ultimately health outcomes and health care costs. In Hong Kong, people are at risk of seasonal influenza infection twice a year for three-month periods. Seasonal influenza is significantly associated with an increased number of hospitalized children. There is no research that provides an understanding of parents' health knowledge and their access to health information concerning seasonal influenza, nor their capacity to effectively manage influenza episodes in household. Such knowledge provides valuable insight into enhancing parents' health literacy to effectively communicate health messages to their children and support healthy behaviour development through role modelling. | - |
dcterms.abstract | Methods: A multiple case study was employed to gain a multifaceted understanding of parents' health literacy regarding seasonal influenza prevention. Purposive intensity sampling was adopted to recruit twenty Hong Kong Chinese parents with a healthy three-To-five year old preschool child from three kindergartens. A content analysis was employed to categorize, tabulate and combine data to address the propositions of the study. Comprehensive comparisons were made across cases to reveal the commonalities and differences. | - |
dcterms.abstract | Results: Four major themes were identified: inadequate parents' knowledge and reported skills and practices related to seasonal influenza prevention; parental knowledge seeking and exchange practices through social connection; parents' approaches to health information and limited enabling environments including shortage of health resources and uneven resource allocation for health promotion. | - |
dcterms.abstract | Conclusions: The findings recommend that community health professionals can play a critical role in increasing parents' functional, interactive and critical health literacy; important elements when planning and implementing seasonal influenza health promotion. | - |
dcterms.accessRights | open access | en_US |
dcterms.bibliographicCitation | PLoS one, 2015, v. 10, no. 12, e0143844 | - |
dcterms.isPartOf | PLoS one | - |
dcterms.issued | 2015 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | 2-s2.0-84956556207 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1932-6203 | en_US |
dc.description.validate | 201810_a bcma | en_US |
dc.description.oa | Version of Record | en_US |
dc.identifier.FolderNumber | OA_IR/PIRA | en_US |
dc.description.pubStatus | Published | en_US |
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