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Digital health literacy and associated factors among internet users from China: a cross-sectional study
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Journal Article
Digital health literacy and associated factors among internet users from China: a cross-sectional study
2024
Overview
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 scores.
Results
In total, 702 participants completed the survey. The mean DHLI score was 2.69 ± 0.61. Multivariate linear regression analyses showed that the age groups 35–49 (β = − 0.08,
P
= 0.033), 50–64 (β = − 0.161,
P
< 0.001), and ≥ 65 (β = − 0.138,
P
< 0.001) were negatively associated with DHL scores. However, education level, including bachelor’s or associate degree (β = 0.255,
P
= 0.002) and master’s degree and above (β = 0.256,
P
< 0.001), frequency of health-related Internet usage (β = 0.192,
P
< 0.001), the number of digital devices used (β = 0.129,
P
= 0.001), and OHISB (β = 0.103,
P
= 0.006) showed a positive relationship with DHL scores.
Conclusions
The study findings demonstrate that age, educational levels, number of technological devices used, and greater use of the web for health information were independently associated with DHL scores. Healthcare providers should consider providing training programs tailored to specific sociodemographic factors to improve the ability that find and use accurate information online to meet digital health services, which contributes to enhance their self-management and reduce health disparities.
