Online Health Information Seeking and eHealth Literacy Among Spanish Language-Dominant Latino Adults Receiving Care in a Community Clinic: Secondary Analysis of Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial Data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

eHealth literacy is the ability to seek, obtain, and decipher online health information (OHI) for health and disease management. Rapid developments in eHealth (eg, health care services and online information) place increased demands on patients to have high eHealth literacy levels. Yet, greater emphasis on eHealth may disproportionately affect groups with limited eHealth literacy. Cultural background, language, and eHealth literacy are influential considerations affecting health care and information access, health care use, and successful eHealth resource use, and they may influence OHI seeking for behavioral change toward cancer prevention.

Objective

This study aimed to characterize the extent of OHI seeking and eHealth literacy among Spanish-dominant (SD) Latino

SUBMITTER: Chavarria EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9614617 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature