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- Title
Caregivers' Information Overload and Their Personal Health Literacy.
- Authors
Kim, Sujin
- Abstract
Caregivers may receive information at a rate far higher than their individual abilities to process. Hence, caregivers can cause less desirable health outcomes for their care recipients. This study sought to identify caregiver information overload in comparison to noncaregivers. Relating factors such as caregiving contexts, health status, and personal health literacy were also compared between caregivers and noncaregivers. Using a nationally representative survey, the Health Information National Trends Survey, the differences between caregivers and noncaregivers regarding information overload were compared. A total of 2,918 noncaregivers and 484 caregivers were identified. More than two-thirds of the study sample demonstrated information overload regardless of caregiving status. Male, less educated, lower income, married, and employed caregivers are likely overloaded with information. Caregivers with information overload show less healthy conditions and expressed more information seeking burden. Effective countermeasures of heavy information overload should be devised based on specific causes and their accompanying consequences.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CAREGIVERS; ANALYSIS of variance; CONFIDENCE; RESEARCH methodology; INFORMATION overload; HEALTH status indicators; BURDEN of care; HEALTH literacy; SURVEYS; SEX distribution; INCOME; COMPARATIVE studies; HEALTH; INFORMATION resources; EMPLOYMENT; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; CHI-squared test; QUESTIONNAIRES; INFORMATION-seeking behavior; MARITAL status; DATA analysis software; STATISTICAL correlation; EDUCATIONAL attainment; HEALTH self-care
- Publication
Western Journal of Nursing Research, 2021, Vol 43, Issue 5, p431
- ISSN
0193-9459
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0193945920959086