Department of Public Health Nursing, Ege University Faculty of Nursing, Izmir, Turkey.
Nursing Department, Ege University Faculty of Nursing, Izmir, Turkey.
Compr Child Adolesc Nurs. 2022 Dec;45(4):383-394. doi: 10.1080/24694193.2022.2056263. Epub 2022 Apr 26.
The purpose of the research were to describe eHealth literacy and identify factors affecting the eHealth literacy of early adolescents. This descriptive and correlational study was conducted in a government secondary school in the west of Turkey. The research sample consisted of 1347 adolescents in the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades in the academic year 2016-2017. An adolescents' description form and the eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS) were used to collect the data. The mean score on eHEALS was 23.81 ± 6.94. Multiple regression analysis showed that being in the 11-12 year age group (β = 0.528, p < 0.001), having a father with a high school or university level education (β = 0.055, p = 0.038), and carrying out research in the internet on health related topics (β = 0.118, p < 0.001) were determinant at 32% (F = 56.901, p < 0.001, R = 0.32) on the adolescents' eHealth literacy. The mean eHEALS score in the study demonstrated that the e-health literacy of the adolescents was rather low and inadequate, and that there were gaps in the adolescents' knowledge and skills about how and where to find quality eHealth information. Nurses are expected to provide eHealth literacy training that will help to find information on the internet and interpret and assess it, and this will develop eHealth literacy of adolescents. Integrating online health information sources into the school health education curriculum in line with developed strategies can be suggested because it is an attempt to improve the eHealth literacy of adolescents.
本研究旨在描述青少年的电子健康素养，并确定影响其电子健康素养的因素。这是一项在土耳其西部的一所政府中学进行的描述性和相关性研究。研究样本由 2016-2017 学年六年级、七年级和八年级的 1347 名青少年组成。采用青少年描述表和电子健康素养量表（eHEALS）收集数据。eHEALS 的平均得分为 23.81±6.94。多元回归分析显示，11-12 岁年龄组（β=0.528，p<0.001）、父亲具有高中或大学学历（β=0.055，p=0.038）以及在互联网上进行与健康相关的主题研究（β=0.118，p<0.001）是青少年电子健康素养的决定因素，占 32%（F=56.901，p<0.001，R=0.32）。研究中青少年的 eHEALS 平均得分表明，他们的电子健康素养相当低且不足，并且在如何以及从何处获取优质电子健康信息方面存在知识和技能差距。护士有望提供电子健康素养培训，帮助他们在互联网上查找信息，并对其进行解释和评估，从而提高青少年的电子健康素养。可以建议将在线健康信息资源纳入学校健康教育课程，以符合既定策略，因为这是提高青少年电子健康素养的一种尝试。
