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Articles or study summaries written by individuals who were not part of the study or data collection.
Ex: An article about stress and college students you found from the PsycInfo database. |
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Studies, reseach, or experiments written by the individuals that actually collected that data and conducted the study.
Ex: If you wanted to distribute a questionnaire prior to a focus group, you are collecting primary data. |
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Reference tools such as brochures, pamphlets, or anything else compiled from primary and secondary sources.
Ex: You were given a brochure from your the doctors office about type 2 Diabetes. |
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| Can be used to broadcast messages and questions to other heatlh ed. specialists. Stands for International Electronic Mail Directory of Health education specialists. |
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| A good source for a program with limited funds. Stands for Health Resources and Services Administration. It has many free health education materials. |
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| Database with mainly medical journals and some health education journals as well. This will most likely be written with more medical termininology so it is geared toward medical field. |
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| Stands for Education Resource Information Center. This is a database that is helpful to those searching for information regarding school-aged children. (K-12) |
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| Stands for Combined Health Information Database. This is a free database which is produced by federal agencies and describes various health promotion programs. |
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| Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health Literature, this database is good for general health education journals as well as nursing. There is a wide variety of articles on this database and is great for health ed. sepcialists. |
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| Evidence-based Medicine Review, this is a collection of databases that has various evidence based strategies. It is important to have any strategy you use in your health promotion programs to be evidence-based. |
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| Health and Psychosocial Instruments, this database has a variety of instruments such as questionnaries and checklists that can be used for planning a program. This is good so you are not having to create your own instruments unless necessary. |
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| Good database for articles regarding anything in the psychology field, for example: stress, violence, and depression. |
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| Assessing Online Information |
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Who is responsible for the site? What is the site's funding source? What is the purpose of the site? Does it contain evidence-based references? Is the info up to date? Does it track users as subscribers?
These are things you want to think about when you are using websites and when you are helping a client utilize online resources. |
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Reading level of content that would be appropriate for the audience.
Ex: You would not want to give a fact sheet full of medical terminology to someone who would not know what any of those terms mean. |
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| Whether or not a website is current and info is up to date. |
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An individuals ability to understand, obtain, and process basic health info and make good health decisions.
Ex: Can a person follow and understand the directions when given a prescription medication? Or read/understand a nutrition label? |
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Simple Measure of Gobbledygook (readabilty formula), this determines the 'grade level' of reading material
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| A person's ability to understand numbers. For example: representing quantity by comparing a serving size of cheese to one tic tac box. |
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| Adults are the most motivated to learn when the information/lesson pertains to their interests, is life-centered, and self-directed. |
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| Health education specialists may be utilized by other organizations to assist in things such as organizing, implementing, or evaluating a program. |
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| Informally advising colleagues within an agency. |
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| Consulting with an outside agency and is typically more formal. It will usually require a contract. |
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| This website is a good resource with health information for consumers. |
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| Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs |
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| There are 5 categories of needs that people have. Starting with the most basic to the highest need: Physiological, Safety, Love/Belonging, Self-esteem, and Self-actualization (reaching your full potential) |
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| This is a system of the order in which people learn: Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating, and Creating. |
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