The CATCH Project: Central Mass Access to Child Health Information*

Harger, Nancy; Martin, Elaine

doi:10.3163/1536-5050.95.3.337

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“…They can validate and supplement their knowledge with medical and health information available on various online sources. Initiatives such as the digital pediatric reference library (D'Alessandro and Kingsley 2002), the CATCH project (Harger and Martin 2007) and…”

Section: Hospital Library For Patientsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Infant Hospital Library

Ávila¹,

Silva²

2021

BRAJIS

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The child, when hospitalized, loses the freedom to play, as he is accustomed to, for being confined in a hospital environment, subject to a medical treatment that can cause pain and fear. The adult who accompanies needs information about the disease and the treatment of the child. The infant hospital library attempts to meet the needs of both of its users. However, such a library has not been thoroughly considered for scientific inquiry. Hence, this paper investigates its structure and actions by addressing three subjects as follows. First, a software was developed specifically for this type of library, which registered the catalog, users and loans data of two years of service of a voluntary infant hospital library in a Brazilian state public hospital. Then, an exploratory study of the reading preferences of the users while hospitalized was carried out, whose findings follow. Adults play an important role in encouraging and assisting recreational reading, which occurred in all age groups of a child and similarly between genders. Furthermore, users preferred to read literature, religious and comic books in their native language that generally consist of short stories. Finally, collection development policies were determined based on the users’ reading preferences.

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Section: Hospital Library For Patientsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Infant Hospital Library

Ávila¹,

Silva²

2021

BRAJIS

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“…Two briefs, one by Harger and Martin and another by Bobik, focus on child health. Harger and Martin's report of the Central Mass Access to Child Health Information (CATCH) project describes a training initiative focusing on staff at eleven public health agencies serving children with chronic conditions and their families in central Massachusetts [14]. Bobik's report describes how NN/LM's funding helped to extend an existing collaboration among Florida's Area Health Education Centers (AHECs), All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, and schools across the state, widening the project's focus from school nurses to include other school staff with health-related responsibilities [15].…”

Section: Public Health Information Outreachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction: Public health information outreach

Cogdill¹

2007

J Med Libr Assoc

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The CATCH Project: Central Mass Access to Child Health Information*

Abstract: See end of article for authors ’ affiliations. DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.95.3.33

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