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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 13.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2017 Sep 13;57(5):519–527. doi: 10.1177/0009922817730346

Table 6:

Impact of Health Information

Impact of Health Information Beneficial
“It would have changed a lot because I would know what to do.”
“I think it would have actually assisted me a little better in how to take care of the symptoms and stuff like that vs. me getting scared and actually coming to the hospital.”
“Yes it would have helped me out. That mean I wouldn’t have been so frantic”
Not Beneficial
“I probably wouldn’t have even looked at it. Because, I feel better getting care, you know what I mean...He needs to be seen physically versus literature.”
“Having him examined [is what is important], because it might be something that I may be mistaking. And, what it I am doing things and procedures and stuff that, you know, make it worse or agitate the situation. I’m not going to do that.”
“Yeah, just to make sure exactly what it was or if it was something dangerous or something like that... I would rather take them to the doctor.”