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Parent/caregiver health literacy among children with special health care needs: a systematic review of the literature

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pediatrics, August 2015
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Title
Parent/caregiver health literacy among children with special health care needs: a systematic review of the literature
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BMC Pediatrics, August 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12887-015-0412-x
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Jessica Keim-Malpass, Lisa C. Letzkus, Christine Kennedy

Abstract

Children with special health care needs (CSHCN) are children with medical or behavioral diagnoses that require services beyond those generally needed by pediatric populations. They account for a significant portion of pediatric health care expenditures and often have complicated treatment regiments. Health literacy has recently been recognized as a key indicator of quality chronic disease self-management and parental/caregiver health literacy of CSHCN is an understudied area. The purpose of this systematic review was to assess the available evidence of studies investigating parent/caregiver health literacy of CSHCN. Databases were searched to retrieve relevant articles for inclusion (dating from 1998 to 2014). Only studies that assessed the relationship between parent/caregiver health literacy on outcomes pertinent to CSHCN were included. Because of the limited number of studies, there were no restrictions placed on type of outcome. Thirteen studies were included in the final review with a range of health literacy assessments and outcome ascertainment. The majority of studies; (1) focused on the relationship between parental/caregiver health literacy and asthma outcomes, (2) were cross-sectional study designs, and (3) included samples recruited from pediatric clinics in academic medical settings. There were several gaps in the literature where future research is needed including; (1) direct assessment of child/adolescent health literacy, (2) inclusion of children with co-morbid conditions, (3) further assessment of the relationship between health literacy and health care utilization and cost, and (4) assessment of parental/caregiver health literacy in the inpatient care setting.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 2%
Greece 1 <1%
Unknown 187 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 29 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 10%
Student > Bachelor 20 10%
Researcher 15 8%
Student > Postgraduate 13 7%
Other 43 23%
Unknown 51 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 44 23%
Nursing and Health Professions 35 18%
Social Sciences 24 13%
Psychology 12 6%
Engineering 4 2%
Other 11 6%
Unknown 61 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 March 2016.
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#13,209,028
of 22,821,814 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pediatrics
#1,606
of 3,006 outputs
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#120,408
of 264,147 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pediatrics
#14
of 46 outputs
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