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Information needs and services for autism in China: is there any gap between them?
- Source :
- Aslib Journal of Information Management. 73:497-516
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Emerald, 2021.
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Abstract
- PurposeThis study aims to explore the gap between information needs and services for autism in China.Design/methodology/approachThe gap is revealed by investigating the status quo of autism information needs and services. The authors extracted categories and subcategories of information needs through content analysis of academic documents and then supplemented the subcategories through text mining of an online forum. Meanwhile, categories and subcategories of information services were extracted through content analysis of autism websites. Finally, the authors matched the two to explore the gap and designed a quantitative index to measure it.FindingsA total of eight and ten categories of information needs and services are extracted, respectively. In total, six categories of information needs can be partly matched, but nearly half of the subcategories failed. Huge gaps in economic support, sociality and policy mechanisms categories are observed through the quantitative index and medium gaps in social resource services and employment categories while almost no gaps in psychological/emotional counseling, rehabilitation skills training and professional knowledge/information categories.Originality/valueThis study takes a deep insight into the gap between autism information needs and services in China, providing evidences and suggestions for information providers to improve their services. Academic documents and online forum data are adopted to avoid the impact of stigmatization, which provides a multi-source data analysis approach for the information needs of special groups.
- Subjects :
- Status quo
media_common.quotation_subject
05 social sciences
Applied psychology
Information needs
Online forum
Library and Information Sciences
medicine.disease
Index (publishing)
Content analysis
medicine
Information system
Autism
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
0509 other social sciences
050904 information & library sciences
Psychology
China
050104 developmental & child psychology
Information Systems
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20503806
- Volume :
- 73
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Aslib Journal of Information Management
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........b1bfeb285ff8056615faa865a267cd92