Health care settings as resources for parenting information

In research designed to investigate and develop health care settings as resources for parenting information, 82 physicians' waiting rooms were surveyed. Less than a third of the waiting rooms surveyed provided any parenting information, but a majority of physicians agreed to display parenting pamphlets for a trial period. All found them useful to their patients, wanted more, and are continuing to display them on an ongoing basis. Providing parenting information like this is a simple intervention in aid of families that nurses could initiate in a variety of health care settings.