Investigation E-health literacy and correlates factors among Alborz medical sciences students: a cross sectional study
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Leili Salehi
Abstract
Background
Health literacy is one of the goals of public health and the key challenge of health education in the 21st century. This study aimed to determine E-health literacy and correlates among medical sciences students in Karaj, Iran 2017.
Methods
This cross-sectional study was performed on a thousand students of Alborz University of Medical Sciences. A multi-sectional questionnaire was used to collect data. The first section included age, major, marital status; educational grade, mother and father education, socioeconomic status, health status, membrane in social network and the second compromised a validated Persian version of the E-health literacy. We used t-test and analysis of variance (ANOVA) to compare the mean of variables and for categorical variables x2 was used with SPSS version 19.
Results
The mean age of the subjects was 25.5 ± 5.6 years, of which 65.3% were male. The medical students constituted the most number of participants (28.6%). Mean eHEALS score was 26.11 ± 6.6 years. There was a significant difference between female and male regarding E-health literacy (P = 0.04). Internet was the most commonly used sources for health information (67%), the majority of the students were members of one of the social networks (77.7%) that telegram and Instagram were among the most popular networks.
Conclusion
Improving search skills and assessing of health resources in students, especially in medical and Para-medical sciences, is recommended. Social networks can be used as channels for the transmission of the health messages due to high usage among students.
Acknowledgments
We would like to thanks all the students who participated in this study.
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Authors contributions: LS: design and conduct the study and write the manuscript, LK: helped in conducting the study and writing the manuscript. Both authors read and approve the final version of manuscript.
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Conflict of interest: The authors mentioned, there is not any conflict of interest.
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Ethical approval: The study was approved by Alborz University of Medical Sciences (Code no. 95-01-05-1273). An information sheet and a consent sheet accompanied each questionnaire, and participants were informed of the need for written consent.
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