Open AccessDeveloping a web-based toolkit for new mothers about postpartum pelvic floor health in collaboration with a professional medical association
Author(s) -
Brandon Patterson,
Lauren Clark,
Ana Sanchez-Birkhead,
Liliana I Martinez,
Marlene J. Egger
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of the medical library association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.102
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1558-9439
pISSN - 1536-5050
DOI - 10.5195/jmla.2021.1078
Subject(s) - medical library , health care , resource (disambiguation) , rubric , medicine , medical education , nursing , public relations , psychology , computer science , political science , computer network , mathematics education , law
Few electronic resources are available for new mothers with concerns about changes in their pelvic floor following childbirth. Patients may struggle when seeking authoritative information regarding pelvic floor conditions online given the sensitivity of the topic as well as the inadvertent connection to obscene or demeaning content found online. A health sciences librarian partnered with the Motherhood and Pelvic Health Study, an interdisciplinary research group, to provide expert searching skills for a particularly challenging health condition that patients struggle to find useful information on.