Education-Based Gaps in eHealth: A Weighted Logistic Regression Approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Persons with a college degree are more likely to engage in eHealth behaviors than persons without a college degree, compounding the health disadvantages of undereducated groups in the United States. However, the extent to which quality of recent eHealth experience reduces the education-based eHealth gap is unexplored.

Objective

The goal of this study was to examine how eHealth information search experience moderates the relationship between college education and eHealth behaviors.

Methods

Based on a nationally representative sample of adults who reported using the Internet to conduct the most recent health information search (n=1458), I evaluated eHealth search experience in relation to the likelihood of engaging in different eHealth behaviors. I examined w

SUBMITTER: Amo L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5081480 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature