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(2019) Information literacy in everyday life, Dordrecht, Springer.
Developing health information literacy in disadvantaged and dependent circumstances
the everyday role of family nurses
Steven Buchanan , Emma Nicol
pp. 124-135
This paper examines the challenges of developing health information literacy (HIL) amongst disadvantaged and dependent populations from the perspective of non-information professionals occupying everyday support roles. Our participants were a team of UK Family Nurses providing outreach support to vulnerable young mothers from areas of multiple deprivations. Our data collection methods were observation, interviews, and focus groups. Our participants all believe that they have an important role in developing HIL in clients but are unfamiliar with fundamental overarching information literacy (IL) concepts and models. Consequently, their confidence in their own ability to develop HIL skills in clients is limited. We discuss that to extend primary healthcare practices beyond HIL support to HIL education requires not only IL training, but also an appropriate pedagogical approach adaptable to semi-structured problematic situations. We raise important questions regarding approaches to developing HIL in disadvantaged populations.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13472-3_12
Full citation:
Buchanan, S. , Nicol, E. (2019)., Developing health information literacy in disadvantaged and dependent circumstances: the everyday role of family nurses, in S. Kurbanolu, J. Boustany, E. Grassian, D. Mizrachi & L. Roy (eds.), Information literacy in everyday life, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 124-135.
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