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Digital health literacy and associated factors among internet users from China: a cross-sectional study by Bing-Yue Zhao; Long Huang; Xiao Cheng; Ting-Ting Chen; Si-Jia Li; Xiao-Juan Wang; Shui-Xiu Huang; Rong-Fang Hu; Hong Li is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Background As the internet develops and 5G technology becomes increasingly prominent, the internet has become a major source of health-related information. Increasingly, people use the internet to find health-related information, and digital health literacy is now a set of essential capabilities to improve their health in the digital era. However, little is known about the factors that influencing digital health literacy. This study aimed to assess digital health literacy scores and identify its influencing factors among internet users in China. Additionally, this study explored the participant’s actual skills using an additional set of performance-based items from the Digital Health Literacy Instrument (DHLI). ## Methods An online cross-sectional study was conducted in August 2022. Participants aged ≥18 years were recruited to complete the survey. Data were collected using the Chinese revised version of the DHLI, the self-reported internet use questionnaire, and the sociodemographic questionnaire. We conducted multivariate linear regression analyses to explore the relationships among the sociodemographic variables, behavior of internet use, and the digital health literacy score

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Author
Bing-Yue Zhao; Long Huang; Xiao Cheng; Ting-Ting Chen; Si-Jia Li; Xiao-Juan Wang; Shui-Xiu Huang; Rong-Fang Hu; Hong Li
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published
2024
Language
EN
Field
Medicine (Health Sciences)

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