Helping young women go red: Harnessing the power of personal and digital information to prevent heart disease.
Jingyi Liu, Sierra Patterson, Shivani Goel and 3 others
PMID 33773870WHAT IT FOUND
Most young women surveyed did not feel informed about heart disease or stroke.
Those who had heard about it from friends, the web, or providers, or discussed personal risk with a provider, were more likely to feel informed.
Key findings
01More than half of the young women reported feeling not at all informed about heart disease, and more than half reported feeling not at all informed about stroke.
02Seeing, hearing, or reading about heart disease from friends or relatives, the web, or healthcare professionals was associated with feeling informed about heart disease; the web was the only source associated with feeling informed about stroke.
03Speaking with a healthcare provider about personal risk for heart disease was associated with feeling informed about heart disease, and exercise was the only discussion topic associated with feeling informed about stroke.
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What it does not show
Participants were recruited from two clinical sites in the Northeastern United States, so the results may not apply nationally or to people with limited access to healthcare. The sample size limited detection of key demographic differences and health status responses because the survey was anonymous. Completing the survey online on a tablet may have selected for participants with greater technologic literacy. Feeling informed was self-reported; actual knowledge of heart disease and stroke was not assessed.
Declared interests
No conflicts of interest were declared.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that giving young women heart disease information causes them to know more or lowers cardiovascular risk. This was a survey of self-reported feeling informed, not a test of an intervention or actual knowledge.