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Impact of Communicating With Doctors Via Social Media on Consumers' E-Health Literacy and Healthy Behaviors in China.
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- Social Media and eHealth Literacy Among Older Adults: Systematic Literature Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Social Media Use for Health Purposes: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Pooled it
- Quality of Chronic Care Statistically Mediates the Association Between eHealth Literacy and Self-Management Among Adults with Diabetes in a Shared Care Model.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Validation of the Adapted eHEALS Questionnaire for Assessing Digital Health Literacy in Social Media: A Pilot Study.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2025Article
- Effects of Diabetes Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Internet Health Information on e-Health Literacy in Middle-Aged Patients with Diabetes.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
This study investigated the relationship between consumers' communication with doctors and their e-Health literacy and healthy behaviors based on the theory of reasoned action. Five communication activities were identified: following doctors' social media accounts, reading doctors' posts, responding to doctors' posts, favoring (clicking "like" of) doctors' posts, and recommending doctors to other patients. E-Health literacy and healthy behaviors were measured based on instruments used in previous literature. Survey method was used to collect data and a hierarchical regression analysis was used to analyze the relationship between communication activities and consumers' e-Health literacy and healthy behaviors. We found that following doctors' accounts (
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