Youth Health Literacy: Lessons from the Field

ABSTRACT

The Youth Health Literacy Project targeted middle and high school students in a rural county who were enrolled in health and physical fitness classes. Students were instructed on good, reliable health information websites using the Internet. The authors also loaned each student an Amazon Kindle Fire tablet to gauge the student’s grasp of health literacy information. A pretest and posttest measured the effectiveness of the instruction.

KEYWORDS:

• Amazon kindle fire tablets
• digital information needs
• high school students
• information needs
• middle school students
• youth health literacy

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Developed resources reported in this article are supported by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH) under cooperative agreement number UG4LM012342 with the University of Maryland, Health Sciences and Human Services Library. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.