Translation and Validation Study of the French Version of the eHealth Literacy Scale: Web-Based Survey on a Student Population.

ABSTRACT:

Background

eHealth literacy is emerging as a crucial concept for promoting patient self-management in an overloaded hospital system. However, to the best of our knowledge, no tool currently exists to measure the level of eHealth literacy among French-speaking people. The eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS) is an easy-to-administer 8-item questionnaire (5-point Likert scale, ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree) that has already been translated into many languages. Currently, it is the most cited questionnaire in the literature.

Objective

The aim of this study was to translate eHEALS to French and validate the French version of eHEALS (F-eHEALS).

Methods

The validation of the F-eHEALS scale followed the 5 steps of the transcultural validation method: double rev

SUBMITTER: Chaniaud N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9475413 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature