“People play it down and tell me it can’t kill people, but I know people are dying each day”. Children’s health literacy relating to a global pandemic (COVID-19); an international cross sectional study

Bray, Lucy; Carter, Bernie; Blake, Lucy; Saron, Holly; Kirton, Jennifer A.; Robichaud, Fanny; Avila, Marla; Ford, Karen; Nafria, Begonya; Forsner, Maria; Nilsson, Stefan; Chelkowski, Andrea; Middleton, Andrea; Rullander, Anna-Clara; Mattsson, Janet; Protheroe, Joanne

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0246405

All Outputs (4)

How children in Sweden accessed and perceived information during the first phase of the Covid-19 pandemic (2021)
Journal Article

Aim: To describe how children in Sweden accessed and perceived information about SARS-CoV2 and Covid-19 during the first phase of the outbreak. Methods: This study is a substudy of an international cross-sectional online mixed methods survey examinin... Read More about How children in Sweden accessed and perceived information during the first phase of the Covid-19 pandemic.

How parents share and limit their child’s access to information about COVID-19: A mixed methods online survey study (2021)
Journal Article

This study aimed to understand the role that parents play in sharing or limiting their child’s access to information about coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). A subset of data from an international mixed methods online survey study was analysed to e... Read More about How parents share and limit their child’s access to information about COVID-19: A mixed methods online survey study.

Children’s pictures of COVID-19 and measures to mitigate its spread: An international qualitative study (2021)
Journal Article

Objectives: To gain insight into children’s health-related knowledge and understanding of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) and COVID-19, and measures adopted to mitigate transmission. Design: A child-centred qualitative cre... Read More about Children’s pictures of COVID-19 and measures to mitigate its spread: An international qualitative study.

“People play it down and tell me it can’t kill people, but I know people are dying each day”. Children’s health literacy relating to a global pandemic (COVID-19); an international cross sectional study (2021)
Journal Article

The aim of this study was to examine aspects of children's health literacy; the information sources they were accessing, their information preferences, their perceived understanding of and their reported information needs in relation to COVID-19. An... Read More about “People play it down and tell me it can’t kill people, but I know people are dying each day”. Children’s health literacy relating to a global pandemic (COVID-19); an international cross sectional study.