1 Heroin and Chiropody HIB-510 Instructor: Sergio Chaparro

2 Heroin and Chiropody “ The aim of the current study was to investigate the role of the community health nurse as an information provider in the social networks of the elderly”.(Pettigrew, p. 803). “From Granovetter’s theory, the hypothesis was that the nurse is a weak tie who provides the senior with HIS (human services information) that he or she cannot obtain through strong ties, but that the senior would not act on this information until first conferring with family” (Pettigrew, p.803). “This study sought to investigate the cognitive construction of adolescents when they are exposed to information about the drug, heroin, from the perspective of the adolescents ( Todd p. 11).” “Central to this study is the concept of cognitive information utilization. (Todd, p.11)” “Two broad perspectives of doing can be identified. First, information utilization is portrayed as acting, a behavioral doing. Second, and more recently, there is the portrayal of information utilization as a complex evolutionary and interactive process. It involves cognitive and affective processes, and cognitive actions, as well as overt, observable behaviors and actions (Todd, p.11)”

3 Heroin and Chiropody “ Why a special topic issue on youth issues? Specifically, research related to information and youth draws attention to the importance of context and individual differences, which bear on information searching and information literacy instruction. While information systems often seem to assume a generic user in a decontextualized context, those who work with young people know that such a creature simply does not exist. Indeed, the developmental and maturational differences that will inevitably be observed in any group of adolescents preclude the imposition of such general assumptions. By the same token, assumptions related to the expertise of the user are likewise problematic.Todd’s article deals specifically with these important issues, drawing attention to the importance of individual differences in supporting information seeking and in designing instruction and systems.” Chelton and Thomas, JASIS, 50 (1) (1999)

4 Clinic Information Ground (Clinic) Clinic Activities Physical Environment Nurse’s situation Senior’s situation School (Non selective, Catholic, Australian) Classroom (task) Type of cognitive information Cognitive strategies Changes to Knowledge structures

5 Heroin and Chiropody “ matching choice of information to where adolescents are in their personal and social experiences and their physiological development may mean that it is utilized more effectively and integrated more meaningfully into their existing knowledge” (Todd, p.22).