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Applying Library Research Skills Jennifer L. Jefferson Capella University Developing a Health Care Perspective Applying Library Research Skills November 8, 2020

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Applying Library Research Skills In the world of health care, there are a lot of new challenges that healthcare professionals face every day. One challenge that they face today is limited access to healthcare. What does Limited Access Healthcare entitled you may ask, consumers, clients, and patients face barriers to healthcare access for many reasons. Those reasons consisted of geographic location, provider availability, transportation issues and mobility. So, I decided to finish my degree in healthcare administration, so that I can find different avenues to help healthcare professionals decrease healthcare barriers with consumers today. Healthcare professional will become more educated to communicate different online access to help inform consumers with their medical needs. Once healthcare professional becomes more familiar with online access to healthcare, this response will open a whole new avenue for use of internet to access medical information without any problems. Identifying Academic Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles Capella University offers several resources for us to use while attending classes. One of the resources is the library, which I used for this assignment to research articles. I used the Summon, which is a search engine that searches the university's library database. While using the Summon I was able to key in keywords such as online health information seeking, health care access, and health information search, I searched for peer-reviewed articles related to limited access to healthcare. Narrowing down my search, I filtered my search to scholarly and peerreviewed journals and articles published within the last three years of publication.

Assessing Credibility and Relevance of Information Sources To ensure I was assessing articles and journal of credibility, I selected only scholarly and peer-reviewed that published within the last three years. I also made sure that I found authors that studies or worked in the healthcare field. To ensure that I had relevant information on my topic for my paper. In combing through each article, I found important information that is helpful with the healthcare industry today. Finally, with the information I obtain from the reading I was able to get enough information to develop my paper on limited access to healthcare.

Annotated Bibliography Bhandari, N., Shi, Y., & Jung, K. (2014, June 19). Seeking health information online: Does limited healthcare access matter? [Abstract]. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 21(6), 1113-1117. doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002350 This article gives information on how consumers with barriers to healthcare access will use the internet for seeking online health information. The authors of this journal presented information from a survey that conducted in 2009 by the National Health Interview Board,

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that people with barriers such as financial, transportation and scheduling conflicts are more likely to use online search engines to seek general health information more that those without barriers. The authors researched that seeking online health information will give people a chance to communicate with physicians via chat rooms or emails. The authors conclude that the association with healthcare access barriers and online health information seeking, gives several suggestions when medical needs are not met that’s when consumers have high demands for online health information. So, being able to provide reliable health related information online will help consumers obtain medical information, which is especially important for providing self-care resources for those who are facing barriers to health care access.

Banerjee, A., & Singh, S. (2019). Internet and doctor–patient relationship: Cross-sectional study of patients' perceptions and practices [Abstract]. Indian Journal of Public Health, 63(3), 215-219. doi:10.4103/ijph.ijph_392_18 In this article, Internet, and Doctor-Patient Relationships, the authors did a study on patient’s perceptions and practices. The authors explained that with the increased usage for seeking medical information a study was performed to obtain patients seeking on the internet for information pertaining to doctor-patient relationship. The authors used a cross-sectional study with a total of 709 patients, that consist of 307 urban and 402 rural patients interviewed. Results from the authors were that the use of the internet for medial information accessed by urban patients totaling 79.48% and rural patients 28.11%. The authors concluded that a large percentage of patients in urban areas use the internet for seeking medical information and enhancing their doctor-patient relationship. Doctors will have to engage in enhancing their communication skills for patients who are non-tech

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users. Whether the patient has accessed medical information or if he or she understands it will form a change in clinical practice in years to come.

Diviani, N., Fredriksen, E. H., Meppelink, C. S., Mullan, J., Rich, W., & Sudmann, T. T. (2019). Where else would I look for it? A five-country qualitative study on purposes, strategies, and consequences of online health information seeking. Journal of Public Health Research, 8(1), 33-39. doi:10.4081/jphr.2019.1518

This article provides insight on how people are using online health information widely in the western countries searching for information related to health care. The authors conducted a study getting experiences from different demographic backgrounds who use online health information (OHI). By doing this study will give the ratio’s and percentages of consumers that use OHI and how they benefit from it. The authors conclude that the participants would often check OHI (Online Health Information) before seeing their general physician but failed to discuss any information that they may have obtained from online due to the negative response. Health care professionals should consider using OHI seeking and engage in conversations with patients to help them understand and appreciate their decision in health care access.

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References Bhandari, N., Shi, Y., & Jung, K. (2014). Seeking health information online: does limited healthcare access matter? Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association: JAMIA, 21(6), 1113–1117. https://doi.org/10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002350 Singh, S., & Banerjee, A. (2019). Internet and doctor–patient relationship: Cross-sectional study of patients' perceptions and practices. Indian Journal of Public Health, 63(3), 215-219. doi: http://dx.doi.org.library.capella.edu/10.4103/ijph.IJPH_392_18 Diviani, N., Fredriksen, E. H., Meppelink, C. S., Mullan, J., Rich, W., & Tobba, T. S. (2019). Where else would I look for it? A five-country qualitative study on purposes, strategies, and consequences of online health information seeking. Journal of Public Health Research, 8(1) doi:http://dx.doi.org.library.capella.edu/10.4081/jphr.2019.1518...