Report of a survey conducted by Northwestern University’s Center on Media and Human Development on how adolescents (age 13 to 18) use health IT and other sources to acquire health information. Also addresses trust and satisfaction of those sources. Parents were the highest ranked and most trusted source, despite almost universal use of the Internet for health information. Only a minority said they used Internet sources for sensitive health issues they did not want to discuss with parents. Top health topics sought via online sources were fitness, nutrition, and stress. Sexually transited disease was fourth. Most adolescents express skepticism and lack of trust of social media sites as sources of health information.
Wartella 2015 (Link)
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