E-health literacy and associated factors among chronic patients in a low-income country: a cross-sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chronic patients persistently seek for health information on the internet for medication information seeking, nutrition, disease management, information regarding disease preventive actions and so on. Consumers ability to search, find, appraise and use health information from the internet is known as eHealth literacy skill. eHealth literacy is a congregate set of six basic skills (traditional literacy, health literacy, information literacy, scientific literacy, media literacy and computer literacy). The aim of this study was to assess eHealth literacy level and associated factors among internet user chronic patients in North-west Ethiopia.

Methods

Institutional based cross-sectional study design was conducted. Stratified sampling technique was used to select 423 s

SUBMITTER: Shiferaw KB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7407428 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature