"From Eye Rolls to ""I can!"" - Understanding the Health Literacy of Disadvantaged Tweens"

Subramaniam, Mega; St. Jean, Beth; Follman, Rebecca; Taylor, Natalie Greene; Goldberg, Gary; Casciotti, Dana

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Title

"From Eye Rolls to ""I can!"" - Understanding the Health Literacy of Disadvantaged Tweens"

Author(s)

• Subramaniam, Mega
• St. Jean, Beth
• Follman, Rebecca
• Taylor, Natalie Greene
• Goldberg, Gary
• Casciotti, Dana

Issue Date

2014-03-01

Keyword(s)

• digital youth
• information literacy
• health literacy
• disadvantaged youth
• school library
• STEM

Abstract

This poster will present preliminary results from a National Library of Medicine (NLM) funded afterschool program, HackHealth, that aims to increase tweens' interest in health and health science, their health literacy, their health-related self-efficacy, and their awareness of the important connection between their everyday health behaviors and their ability to maintain their health and prevent disease. The program is centered in the school library and the school librarian serves as a partner in facilitating the literacy activities. In this poster, we will focus on the divergent experiences of two seemingly similar tween participants in our program, Danielle and Tamira, and how their differing experiences may have contributed to differences in outcomes, such as the degree of changes in their level of interest in health and the broader sciences (science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields), in their health literacy levels, in their levels of health-related self-efficacy, and in their engagement in relevant health behaviors.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2014 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

english

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.9776/14329

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