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Health Literacy-Sensitive Counselling on Early Childhood Allergy Prevention

  • In Germany, midwives are involved in extensive antenatal and postnatal care. As health professionals, they can play a key role in strengthening health literacy (HL) of parents on how to prevent chronic allergic diseases in their children. The objective of this study is to explore midwives’ perspectives regarding HL-sensitive counselling in early childhood allergy prevention (ECAP). Twenty-four qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with midwives, and data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Only a small number of study participants were aware of HL as a concept. However, most of these use screening and counselling strategies which consider individual information needs and which support parental HL. HL sensitivity in counselling is largely based on the midwives’ “gut feelings” and counselling experience, rather than on formal education. The midwives were largely aware of evidence-based ECAP recommendations; however, allergy prevention was not seen as a stand-alone topic but as part of their general counselling on infant feeding and hygiene. They found parents to be more open to receiving complex prevention information during antenatal counselling. In order to strengthen midwives’ roles in HL-sensitive ECAP counselling, their formal education should provide them with explicit HL knowledge and counselling skills. ECAP should be an inherent part of antenatal care.

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Author:Julia von Sommoggy, Eva-Maria Grepmeier, Janina CurbachORCiD
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-520757
DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19074182
Parent Title (English):International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Subtitle (German):Results of a Qualitative Study on German Midwives Perspectives
Publisher:MDPI
Place of publication:Basel
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2022
Release Date:2022/05/10
Tag:allergy prevention; health literacy; health professionals; midwives; qualitative methods
Volume:19
Issue:7
Article Number:4182
First Page:1
Last Page:16
Institutes:Fakultät Betriebswirtschaft
Begutachtungsstatus:peer-reviewed
OpenAccess Publikationsweg:Gold Open Access- Erstveröffentlichung in einem/als Open-Access-Medium
research focus:Lebenswissenschaften und Ethik
Licence (German):Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International