Volume 11 — August 14, 2014
BRIEF
Information–Seeking Among Chronic Disease Prevention Staff in State Health Departments: Use of Academic Journals
| Journals | Rankinga |
|---|---|
| American Journal of Public Health | .6536 |
| American Journal of Preventive Medicine | .2072 |
| Annual Review of Public Health | .0406 |
| Biomedical Central Public Health (Open Access) | .0022 |
| Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research (Open Access) | .0033 |
| Health Education and Behavior | .1084 |
| Health Promotion Practice | .1295 |
| Implementation Science (Open Access) | .0022 |
| Journal of the American Medical Association | .2746 |
| Journal of Public Health Management and Practice | .0902 |
| Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (Open Access) | .5077 |
| New England Journal of Medicine | .1290 |
| Preventing Chronic Disease (Open Access) | .2795 |
| Public Health Reports | .1712 |
| Preventive Medicine | .0219 |
Figure 1. Mean percentage of journal-using staff per health department selecting each journal as 1 of the top 3 they use.
| Barriers to Use of Journals | State Health Department Workersa Who Identified the Barrier, % |
|---|---|
| Lack of time | .6679 |
| Lack of access | .5691 |
| Too expensive | .4640 |
| Too much to review | .3668 |
| Unsure which journals are useful | .2445 |
| Not familiar | .1289 |
| Other | .1266 |
| Too much statistics | .1165 |
| Article topics are irrelevant | .0479 |
Figure 2. Percentage of non-journal using
participants per health department who indicated each barrier to journal use
as 1 of their top 3 barriers.
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