Larissa Ferraz
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Understanding health information is important for everyone in maintaining a healthy lifestyle and avoiding or coping with ill health. Much health information is still delivered through paper leaflets, brochures and posters as well as packaging of medicines, because these materials are universally accessible, especially to older people unfamiliar with new technology. However digital channels such as websites, email, and social media are also used to extend the reach of printed information at reduced cost and provide richer illustration of medical concepts.
This project will investigate the relative roles of paper and screen-based information in the promotion of healthy ageing in the UK, and explore the potential of augmented paper documents in this domain. These augmented documents will be created and tested using the University of Surrey’s Next Generation Paper (NGP) platform, which allows printed hotlinks to be played on a nearby smartphone.
The project is in partnership with Kent, Surrey and Sussex Academic Health Sciences Network, Surrey County Council Public Health, and the Department of Gerontology, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil (UFSCAR).
Research projects
Understanding health information is important for everyone in maintaining a healthy lifestyle and avoiding or coping with ill health. Much health information is still delivered through paper leaflets, brochures and posters as well as packaging of medicines, because these materials are universally accessible, especially to older people unfamiliar with new technology. However digital channels such as websites, email, and social media are also used to extend the reach of printed information at reduced cost and provide richer illustration of medical concepts.
This project will investigate the relative roles of paper and screen-based information in the promotion of healthy ageing in the UK, and explore the potential of augmented paper documents in this domain. These augmented documents will be created and tested using the University of Surrey’s Next Generation Paper (NGP) platform, which allows printed hotlinks to be played on a nearby smartphone.
The project is in partnership with Kent, Surrey and Sussex Academic Health Sciences Network, Surrey County Council Public Health, and the Department of Gerontology, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil (UFSCAR).
Publications
With technological advancement and the COVID-19 pandemic, paper-based media are giving way to screen-based media to promote healthy ageing. However, there is no review available covering paper and screen media use by older people, so the objective of this review is to map the current use of paper-based and/or screen-based media for health education aimed at older people. The literature will be searched in Scopus, Web of Science, Medline, Embase, Cinahl, The ACM Guide to Computing Literature and Psyinfo databases. Studies in English, Portuguese, Italian or Spanish published from 2012 to the date of the search will be examined. In addition, an additional strategy will be carried out, which will be a Google Scholar search, in which the first 300 studies according to Google's relevance algorithm will be verified. The terms used in the search strategy will be focused on older adults, health education, paper-based and screen-based media, preferences, intervention and other related terms. This review will include studies where the average age of the participants was 60 years or older and were users of health education strategies through paper-based or screen-based media. Two reviewers will carry out the selection of studies in five steps: identification of studies and removal of duplicates, pilot test, selection by reading titles and abstracts, full-text inclusion and search for additional sources. A third reviewer will resolve disagreements. To record information from the included studies, a data extraction form will be used. The quantitative data will be presented in a descriptive way and the qualitative data through Bardin's content analysis. Ethical approval is not applicable to the scoping review. The results will be disseminated through presentations at significant scientific events and published in journals in the area. Open science framework (DOI: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/GKEAH).