Study of Health Information Needs Among Adolescents in Croatia Shows Distinct Gender Differences in Information Seeking Behaviour (CROSBI ID 295120)
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Podaci o odgovornosti
Martinović, Ivana ; Kim, Sung Un ; Stanarević Katavić, Snježana
engleski
Study of Health Information Needs Among Adolescents in Croatia Shows Distinct Gender Differences in Information Seeking Behaviour
Background: Understanding the health information needs of adolescents is the first step towards providing them with relevant information to aid them in their decision making regarding health issues. Objective: The goal of this study is to assess adolescents’ needs, perceptions and sources of health information. Methods: Four hundred sixty- nine high school students in Osijek, Croatia, partici- pated in this study by answering a questionnaire. The collected data were analysed using basic frequency and non- parametric statistical methods. Results: The most popular health topics identified by adolescents in our study were nutrition, diseases, depression, relationships, sexual intercourse and alcohol. Adolescents consider their parents the most reliable personal source of health infor- mation (72.0%), while they perceive the Internet as the main non- personal source of health information (29.8%). Adolescents wish to get more education about health issues at school (54.4%). Significant gender differences were found in adolescents’ needs, perceptions and sources of health information. Conclusions: It is important to provide adolescents with systematic institutional health education and improve health advisory services and library/information ser- vices to assist adolescents in locating health information and resolving their health related questions.
adolescents, health education, health information needs, information seeking behaviour, information sources, questionnaires
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Podaci o izdanju
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2021.
1-22
objavljeno
1471-1834
1471-1842
10.1111/hir.12369
Povezanost rada
Informacijske i komunikacijske znanosti