College Health Professionals and Academic Librarians: Collaboration for Student Health
| Autor: | Carolyn Robertson, Nancy Kolenbrander, Ann Hallyburton |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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HRHIS College health medicine.medical_specialty Medical education Consumer Health Information Universities business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health MEDLINE Information needs Resource (project management) Health promotion Librarians Family medicine ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION medicine Humans The Internet Health education Cooperative Behavior Students business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of American College Health. 56:395-400 |
| ISSN: | 1940-3208 0744-8481 |
| DOI: | 10.3200/jach.56.44.395-400 |
| Popis: | College health professionals must find new ways of educating students on finding and evaluating consumer health information, specifically in the online environment. Librarians are trained as information professionals; however, librarians at general academic libraries are not taking a lead role in providing consumer health information.The authors' purpose in this research was to determine the health information resource needs of college and university students and provide a model for collaboration between college health professionals and academic librarians.The authors compared data from a national survey on college health (N = 54,111) with their own results from a survey of general academic librarians (N = 17) to create recommendations for synching students' reported health information needs with librarians' resources.Although the Internet was students' second most-often consulted health information source, they ranked the believability of online health information above only television. In the librarian survey, although 12 respondents indicated that health information provision is a library's responsibility, the majority (n = 11) believed their library's consumer health outreach to be passive.The authors offer recommendations for partnerships between college healthcare professionals and academic librarians to better provide this information to students. |
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