Atique Suleman, Hosueh Mowafa, Fernandez-Luque Luis, Gabarron Elia, Wan Marian, Singh Onkar, Traver Salcedo Vicente, Li Yu-Chuan Jack, Shabbir Syed-Abdul
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2016 Aug;2016:5636-5639. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7592005.
Nowadays, the Internet and social media represent prime channels for health information seeking and peer support. However, benefits of health social media can be reduced by low digital health literacy. We designed a massive open online course (MOOC) course about health social media to increase the students' digital health literacy. In this course, we wanted to explore the difficulties confronted by the MOOC users in relation to accessing quality online health information and to propose methods to overcome the issues. An online survey was carried out to assess the students' digital health literacy. This survey was one of the activities for the enrolled learners in an online course entitled "Social Media in Health Care" on "FutureLearn", one of the popular MOOC platforms. The course was hosted by Taipei Medical University, Taiwan. Data from a total of 300 respondents were collected through the online survey from 14 December 2015 to 10 January 2016. Most participants (61%) considered finding online health information is easy or very easy, while 39% were unsure or found it difficult to retrieve online health information. Most (63%) were not sure about judging whether available information can be used for making health decisions. This study indicates a demand for more training to increase skills to improve the capability of health consumers to identify trustworthy, useful health information. More research to understand the health information seeking process will be crucial in identifying the skillsets that need to be further developed. MOOCs about digital health can be a great source of knowledge when it comes to studying patients' needs.
如今，互联网和社交媒体是人们获取健康信息和寻求同伴支持的主要渠道。然而，较低的数字健康素养可能会削弱健康社交媒体的益处。我们设计了一门关于健康社交媒体的大规模在线开放课程（MOOC），以提高学生的数字健康素养。在这门课程中，我们希望探讨MOOC用户在获取高质量在线健康信息方面所面临的困难，并提出克服这些问题的方法。我们开展了一项在线调查，以评估学生的数字健康素养。该调查是在“FutureLearn”（一个广受欢迎的MOOC平台）上名为“医疗保健中的社交媒体”的在线课程中，面向注册学员开展的活动之一。该课程由台湾台北医学大学主办。从2015年12月14日至2016年1月10日，通过在线调查共收集了300名受访者的数据。大多数参与者（61%）认为查找在线健康信息容易或非常容易，而39%的人不确定或认为检索在线健康信息困难。大多数人（63%）不确定能否判断现有信息是否可用于做出健康决策。这项研究表明，需要更多培训来提高技能，以增强健康消费者识别可靠、有用健康信息的能力。开展更多研究以了解健康信息的获取过程，对于确定需要进一步培养的技能组合至关重要。在研究患者需求方面，关于数字健康的MOOC可以成为重要的知识来源。
