Development and psychometric evaluation of a new brief scale to measure eHealth literacy in people with type 2 diabetes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The internet has become a major source of health information, and obtaining appropriate information requires various abilities and skills, labeled as electronic health literacy (eHealth literacy). The existing instruments for measuring eHealth literacy are outdated because they were developed during the Web 1.0 era, or not sufficiently sensitive for people with a specific condition or disease because they were designed to assess eHealth literacy over a broad range for a general population. Approximately one in ten adults worldwide live with diabetes. Health professionals have a responsibility to identify patients with low eHealth literacy to prevent them from obtaining misleading internet diabetes information.

Aims

The aims were to develop a condition-specific eHe

SUBMITTER: Lee EH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9635185 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature