eHealth Literacy and Health-Related Internet Use Among Swedish Primary Health Care Visitors: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study
Anna Sjöström, Senada Hajdarevic, Åsa Hörnsten, Ulf Isaksson, Naomi Cahill · 2024
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Description
Care is moving online, but patients differ in how well they find, judge, and use health information on the internet, a skill called eHealth literacy. Anna Sjöström and co-authors survey 172 visitors at a Swedish primary care center, scoring that skill with a multi-part questionnaire. They record each person's age, schooling, and internet habits, and test which traits go with weaker skills.
As a group, visitors scored highest on engaging with their health and on trusting online services keep data private. They scored lowest on motivation to use such services and on feeling able to understand online health information. Weaker literacy tracked with older age and judging online health information as not useful, a link held across nearly all parts of the scale. The authors argue online services must be shaped to users with low skills, or digital care will leave them behind.
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| CREATOR | Anna Sjöström, Senada Hajdarevic, Åsa Hörnsten, Ulf Isaksson, Naomi Cahill |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |