Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
Clin Transplant. 2021 Feb;35(2):e14184. doi: 10.1111/ctr.14184. Epub 2020 Dec 16.
Patient portals promote self-management, but require skills with electronic health information which can be measured by a patient's eHealth literacy. We aimed to describe eHealth literacy among a population of kidney transplant (KT) and liver transplant (LT) recipients and to investigate the relationship between eHealth literacy and Web-based patient portal utilization. We conducted phone surveys (August 2016-March 2017) among 178 KT and 110 LT recipients at two large transplant centers, including the eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS) and items assessing routine portal usage. Portal users were defined as routine if usage was every day, weekly, or monthly. The mean eHEALS score was 30.9 (SD: 5.4), and 45.4% routinely used the patient portal more than a few times per month. Routine users had higher eHealth literacy than non-routine users and non-users (31.97 vs. 29.97 vs. 28.20, p < .001). Routine users had higher eHealth literacy scores compared with non-users after adjusting for transplant organ type, age, educational level, employment status, mobile Internet access, and transplant center (OR: 1.10, 95% CI: 1.03-1.17). KT and LT recipients who routinely use patient portals have high eHealth literacy compared with other diseased populations, which should be leveraged by encouraging routine usage to improve post-transplant health and medication adherence.
患者门户促进自我管理,但需要具备电子健康信息的技能,这可以通过患者的电子健康素养来衡量。我们旨在描述肾脏移植 (KT) 和肝脏移植 (LT) 受者人群中的电子健康素养,并探讨电子健康素养与基于网络的患者门户利用之间的关系。我们在两家大型移植中心对 178 名 KT 和 110 名 LT 受者进行了电话调查 (2016 年 8 月至 2017 年 3 月),包括电子健康素养量表 (eHEALS) 和评估常规门户使用的项目。如果每天、每周或每月都使用门户,则将其定义为常规用户。eHEALS 平均得分为 30.9(SD:5.4),45.4%的患者常规每月使用患者门户多次。常规使用者的电子健康素养高于非常规使用者和非使用者(31.97 比 29.97 比 28.20,p<.001)。调整移植器官类型、年龄、教育程度、就业状况、移动互联网接入和移植中心后,常规使用者的电子健康素养得分高于非使用者(OR:1.10,95%CI:1.03-1.17)。与其他疾病人群相比,常规使用患者门户的 KT 和 LT 受者具有较高的电子健康素养,应通过鼓励常规使用来提高移植后健康和药物依从性。