Technology Use and Interest Among Low-Income Parents of Young Children: Differences by Age Group and Ethnicity
| Autor: | Patti Bokony, Leanne Whiteside-Mansell, Taren Swindle, Wendy L. Ward, Dawn Pettit |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Parents Gerontology Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice media_common.quotation_subject Information Seeking Behavior education Ethnic group Medicine (miscellaneous) Child Nutrition Sciences Patient Education as Topic Phone Early Intervention Educational Humans Social media Poverty media_common Internet Text Messaging Arkansas Nutrition and Dietetics Modalities Variables Electronic Mail business.industry Nutrition Surveys Cross-Sectional Studies Caregivers Child Preschool Head start Telecommunications Female The Internet business Psychology Social Media Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 46:484-490 |
| ISSN: | 1499-4046 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jneb.2014.06.004 |
| Popis: | To examine demographic differences in frequency of use of technologies and interest in receiving nutrition information via technology by low-income parents and caregivers.Descriptive, cross-sectional study.Head Start and state-funded child care programs.A total of 806 parents and caregivers from low-income families.A 20-item survey assessed frequency of use and interest in technologies (dependent variables) and collected participant age and ethnicity (independent variables).Multivariate ANOVA analysis investigated whether age, ethnicity, and their interactions were related to frequency of use and interest in technology types.Daily rates of usage for Internet, text messaging, and cell phone use were over 60%. However, Twitter and blogs were accessed daily by13% of respondents. The omnibus 2-way interaction of ethnicity and age was nonsignificant. However, main effects for ethnicity (Wilks' λ = .85; F = 3.13; P .001) and age (Wilks' λ = .89; F = 2.29; P.001) were observed.Facebook, e-mail, texting, and smartphone applications may be innovative modalities to engage with low-income parents and caregivers aged ≤ 45. However, some strategies may be ineffective for reaching Hispanic families as they reported less use of the Internet, Facebook, and e-mail as well as less interest in e-mail. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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