ArticleHealth psychology and behavioral medicine2021
Group differences in health literacy are ameliorated in ehealth literacy.
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- Examining the relationship between health literacy and eHealth literacy in adult populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Health promotion international · 2025Pooled it
- Determinants and outcomes of eHealth literacy in healthy adults: A systematic review.PloS one · 2023Pooled it
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- Factors predicting eHealth literacy: A profile of California, USA.PEC innovation · 2025Article
- Living infodemics across borders: experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic among migrants from India living in Norway.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Digital Health Literacy of the Population in Germany and Its Association With Physical Health, Mental Health, Life Satisfaction, and Health Behaviors: Nationally Representative Survey Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
- A novel questionnaire for evaluating digital tool use (DTUQ-D) among individuals with type 2 diabetes: exploring the digital landscape.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Sleep hygiene behaviours mediate the association between health/e-health literacy and mental wellbeing.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2023Article
- Advancing Dermatological Care: A Comprehensive Narrative Review of Tele-Dermatology and mHealth for Bridging Gaps and Expanding Opportunities beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- The prevalence of eHealth literacy and its relationship with perceived health status and psychological distress during Covid-19: a cross-sectional study of older adults in Blekinge, Sweden.BMC geriatrics · 2023Article
- eHealth Literacy in a Sample of South Asian Adults in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Subanalysis of a 2014 Community-Based Survey.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- Technologies to Support Frailty, Disability, and Rare Diseases: Towards a Monitoring Experience during the COVID-19 Pandemic Emergency.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The Digital Health: From the Experience of the COVID-19 Pandemic Onwards.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Digital Contact Tracing and COVID-19: Design, Deployment, and Current Use in Italy.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- The Vaccination Process against the COVID-19: Opportunities, Problems andHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundHeath literacy and eHealth literacy are skills that enable individuals to seek, understand and use information in ways which promote and maintain health. The present study examined group differences (ethnicity, immigration) in both literacies and whether there exists an association between the literacies and potential outcomes/gains in health behaviors, health care utilization, perceived health and perceived outcomes of Internet search.
methodsParticipants included 819 Israeli men and women who responded to a nationally representative random-digital-dial (RDD) telephone survey. Respondents were veteran Jews, immigrants from the Former Soviet Union, and Palestinian Citizens of Israel.
resultsSignificant differences between the groups were found in health literacy, especially in higher ordered skills, so that the immigrant group was the lowest, after accounting for demographic variables. No significant group differences were found in eHealth literacy. Health literacy was found to be significantly associated with healthcare utilization, perceived health and perceived outcomes of Internet search while eHealth literacy was associated with perceived health and perceived outcomes of Internet search. No interaction was found between group and literacies in the prediction of the outcomes.
conclusionsImmigration hampers health literacy but differences are ameliorated in eHealth literacy. Finding on association between literacies and outcomes replicated previous ones and the absence of moderation by group attests to the robustness of the models on health literacies.
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