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Table 4 Summary of the key findings and potential strategies for interventions

From: Use of online health information to manage children’s health care: a prospective study investigating parental decisions

Factor

Intervention focus

Critical targets

Attitude

Dispel perceptions of positive outcomes and address perceptions of negative outcomes

- Convenient way to access information

- Finding up-to-date information

- Being able to diagnose and treat symptoms without the need for medical intervention

- Overwhelmed by too much information

- Not being able to speak to someone personally who has experience

Subjective norm

Challenge the approval of important others

- Partners

Perceived behavioural control

Address strategies that may encourage use

- Thoughts about the child’s condition not being serious, so use internet rather than seek health professional advice

Perceived risk

Focus on evaluations of the risk involved

- Testimonials from parents and health professionals and evidence from the empirical literature of the potential risks involved in using the internet to access child health information