Griebel Lena, Enwald Heidi, Gilstad Heidi, Pohl Anna-Lena, Moreland Julia, Sedlmayr Martin
a Chair of Medical Informatics , Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg , Erlangen, Germany.
b Information Studies , University of Oulu , Oulu, Finland.
Inform Health Soc Care. 2018 Dec;43(4):427-442. doi: 10.1080/17538157.2017.1364247. Epub 2017 Oct 18.
The concept of electronic health (eHealth) literacy evolved from the social and information sciences and describes competencies necessary to use electronic health services. As it is a rather new topic, and as there is no current overview of the state of the art in research, it is not possible to identify research gaps. Therefore, the objective of this viewpoint article is to increase knowledge on the current state of the art of research in eHealth literacy and to identify gaps in scientific research which should be focused on by the research community in the future. The article provides a current viewpoint of the concept of eHealth literacy and related research. Gaps can be found in terms of a missing "gold standard" regarding both the definition and the measurement of eHealth literacy. Furthermore, there is a need for identifying the implications on eHealth developers, which evolve from the measurement of eHealth literacy in eHealth users. Finally, a stronger inclusion of health professionals, both in the evolving concept and in the measurement of eHealth literacy, is needed in the future.
电子健康（eHealth）素养的概念源自社会科学和信息科学，描述了使用电子健康服务所需的能力。由于这是一个相当新的话题，且目前尚无该领域研究现状的综述，因此无法确定研究空白。因此，这篇观点文章的目的是增加对电子健康素养研究现状的了解，并找出科学研究中的空白，供未来研究界重点关注。本文提供了关于电子健康素养概念及相关研究的当前观点。在电子健康素养的定义和测量方面，存在缺少“金标准”的问题。此外，需要确定电子健康素养测量对电子健康开发者的影响，这些影响源自对电子健康用户电子健康素养的测量。最后，未来需要在电子健康素养的概念发展和测量中，更广泛地纳入健康专业人员。
