Validation of the German eHealth impact questionnaire for online health information users affected by multiple sclerosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Persons with multiple sclerosis (MS) are confronted by an overwhelming amount of online health information, which can be valuable but also vary in quality and aim. Therefore, it is of great importance for developers and providers of eHealth information to understand its impact on the users. The eHealth Impact Questionnaire (eHIQ) has been developed in the United Kingdom to measure the potential effects of health and experimental information websites. This contains user's general attitudes towards using the internet to gain health information and attitudes towards a specific health related website. The self-complete questionnaire is divided into two independently administered and scored parts: the 11-item eHIQ part 1 and the 26-item eHIQ part 2. This study aimed to valida

SUBMITTER: Sippel A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9380659 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature