ArticleThe Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association2019
Differences in Rural and Urban Health Information Access and Use.
Article in The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07084818 (Enabling Self-Care for Pessary Users in Rural Setting), which is not on this map. Cited by 301 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Enabling Self-Care for Pessary Users in Rural Setting
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Abstract
purposeRural residents may have lower access to and use of certain health information sources relative to urban residents. We investigated differences in information source access and use between rural and urban US adults and whether having low health literacy might exacerbate rural disparities in access to and use of health information.
methodsSix hundred participants (50% rural) completed an online survey about access and use of 25 health information sources. We used logistic regression models to test associations between rurality and access to and use of health information sources and whether rurality interacted with health literacy to predict the access and use.
findingsCompared to urban residents, rural residents had lower access to health information from sources including primary care providers, specialist doctors, blogs, and magazines, and less use of search engines. After accounting for sociodemographics, rural residents only had lower access to specialist doctors than urban residents. Rural residents with limited health literacy had lower access to mass media and scientific literature but higher use of corporations/companies than rural residents with adequate health literacy and urban residents regardless of health literacy level.
conclusionsSome differences in access to and use of health information sources may be accounted for by sociodemographic differences between rural and urban populations. There may be structural barriers such as shortage of specialist doctors and limited media exposure that make it harder for rural residents to access health information, especially those with limited health literacy.
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