Perceived Hindrances to Health Information

Ágústa Pálsdóttir

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-99885-1_4

Perceived Hindrances to Health Information

Ágústa Pálsdóttir^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics

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Abstract

The paper examines perceived hindrances to information about healthy living and how it relates to education, age, and sex. Data was collected by a survey, using a random sample of 1,800 people aged 18 years and older. The response rate was 39%. In addition to background questions, information hindrances were measured by a total of 15 questions, which are all in the form of statements. For six of the 15 statements presented in the study, half or more of participants in all socio-demographic groups agreed that they describe hindrances. The participants´ experience of the hindrances varied though. Findings about socio-demographic differences mainly related to age and education, although differences by sex were also found for some of the hindrances.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era - 7th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2021, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Serap Kurbanoğlu, Sonja Špiranec, Yurdagül Ünal, Joumana Boustany, Denis Kos
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	41-51
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Print)	9783030998844
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99885-1_4
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2022
Event	7th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2021 - Virtual, Online Duration: 20 Sep 2021 → 23 Sep 2021

Publication series

Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume	1533 CCIS
ISSN (Print)	1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)	1865-0937

Conference

Conference	7th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2021
City	Virtual, Online
Period	20/09/21 → 23/09/21

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The study was supported by the University of Iceland Research Fund.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Other keywords

Age
Education
Health information
Information barriers
Lifelong learning
Media and information literacy
Sex

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Pálsdóttir, Á. (2022). Perceived Hindrances to Health Information. In S. Kurbanoğlu, S. Špiranec, Y. Ünal, J. Boustany, & D. Kos (Eds.), Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era - 7th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2021, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 41-51). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 1533 CCIS). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99885-1_4

Pálsdóttir, Ágústa. / Perceived Hindrances to Health Information. Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era - 7th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2021, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Serap Kurbanoğlu ; Sonja Špiranec ; Yurdagül Ünal ; Joumana Boustany ; Denis Kos. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022. pp. 41-51 (Communications in Computer and Information Science).

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Pálsdóttir, Á 2022, Perceived Hindrances to Health Information. in S Kurbanoğlu, S Špiranec, Y Ünal, J Boustany & D Kos (eds), Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era - 7th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2021, Revised Selected Papers. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1533 CCIS, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 41-51, 7th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2021, Virtual, Online, 20/09/21. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99885-1_4

Perceived Hindrances to Health Information. / Pálsdóttir, Ágústa.

Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era - 7th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2021, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Serap Kurbanoğlu; Sonja Špiranec; Yurdagül Ünal; Joumana Boustany; Denis Kos. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022. p. 41-51 (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 1533 CCIS).

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