Featured in the University of Alberta Quad, our Stakeholder Engagement and Research Coordinator Michelle Chan writes about our research.
If you have, or have ever taken care of, a young child, you might have experienced an unsettling panic when they start to exhibit symptoms of being unwell. Is that cough normal? Is it a cold? Is it croup? And what do you do about it?
Instead of scrolling through websites with complex and confusing information, you could instead look through a simple and engaging infographic about common children’s conditions. Two research programs at the University of Alberta — Translating Evidence in Child Health to Enhance Outcomes (ECHO Research) and Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence (ARCHE) — are working together with Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK) to help caregivers identify and manage symptoms, and improve health outcomes for children, by creating arts-based resources like picture ebooks, animated videos, and infographics.
To continue reading this article, please visit the University of Alberta Quad here.