Keyword: interviews

“I Cried Because I Didn’t Know if I Could Take Care of Him”: Toward a Taxonomy of Interactive and Critical Health Literacy as Portrayed by Caregivers of Children with Special Health Care Needs

Although the contributions of reading ability and numeracy skills in successful navigation of health-related systems are understood, the skills that comprise interactive and critical health literacy are not fully explicit. Using a phenomenological approach and the conceptual frame of health literacy as an asset, the authors (Pizur-Barnekow et al, 2011) conducted focus group interviews with 35 caregivers of children who had significant medical needs. The findings support a dynamic constructivist perspective of health literacy such that caregiver skill changed relative to the children's health conditions.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10810730.2011.604386

caregiving, children, constructivist approach, interviews, numer, reading, research, skill, United States