Tavassoli Elahe, Farsani Sara Eslami, Ganji Forouzan, Dehkordi Ziba Raisi
Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran.
Student Research Committee, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran.
J Educ Health Promot. 2025 Jan 31;14:27. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_1980_23. eCollection 2025.
Today, a fifth of the world's population is made up of adolescents aged 10-19, 500 million of these people are adolescent girls, and investing in the health of adolescents is one of the main ways to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Health concerns are a phenomenon that preoccupies many people at some point in their lives, and in some cases, even though the evidence does not show a specific disease, the person's concerns are not resolved and health anxiety continues. E-health literacy helps people manage important health issues, make informed health decisions, or communicate with doctors. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the electronic health literacy promotion strategies in adolescent girls of Iran: a cross-sectional study.
This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2023 on 351 teenage girls of Iran, whose information was completely recorded in the Sib system. The sampling method was random and was used to collect information from the Electronic Health Literacy Questionnaire and the Health Anxiety Questionnaire. Finally, the data collected by the questionnaire were coded and analyzed after entering into the computer by SPSS version 25 software using descriptive and analytical tests.
The average age of adolescent girls was 0.834 + 85.15 years. The average score of electronic health literacy in adolescent girls was 79.07 + 14.54, and the average health anxiety score was 83.3 + 35.73. There was an inverse statistical relationship between e-health literacy and health anxiety in girls. The highest average score of health literacy at the age of 17 was for "girls whose fathers are retired and whose mothers are housewives", fathers and mothers with university education, mothers in the age group of 35-40 years, and fathers in the age group of 40-45 years. There was a significant relationship between e-health literacy and factors such as parents' occupation, parents' education, being the second child, and having older siblings (0.05 > 0).
Improving e-health literacy may be an effective strategy to reduce health anxiety in adolescent girls who are the future mothers of the country. Therefore, developing comprehensive programs for the use of cyberspace, creating simple and understandable media, and educational materials, as well as efficient educational interventions for people with insufficient e-health literacy can be an effective step to develop health literacy skills and ultimately reduce health anxiety among adolescents.
如今，世界五分之一的人口为10至19岁的青少年，其中5亿为少女，投资于青少年健康是实现千年发展目标的主要途径之一。健康问题是许多人在人生某个阶段都会关注的现象，在某些情况下，即使证据并未显示存在特定疾病，人们的担忧也无法消除，健康焦虑持续存在。电子健康素养有助于人们管理重要的健康问题、做出明智的健康决策或与医生沟通。本研究旨在调查伊朗少女的电子健康素养提升策略：一项横断面研究。
这项横断面研究于2023年对351名伊朗少女进行，她们的信息完整记录在Sib系统中。抽样方法为随机抽样，用于从电子健康素养问卷和健康焦虑问卷中收集信息。最后，通过SPSS 25版软件将问卷收集的数据录入计算机后进行编码和分析，采用描述性和分析性测试。
少女的平均年龄为0.834 + 85.15岁。少女的电子健康素养平均得分为79.07 + 14.54，健康焦虑平均得分为83.3 + 35.73。女孩的电子健康素养与健康焦虑之间存在反向统计关系。17岁时健康素养平均得分最高的是“父亲退休且母亲为家庭主妇的女孩”，父母具有大学学历，母亲年龄在35至40岁之间，父亲年龄在40至45岁之间。电子健康素养与父母职业、父母教育程度、排行老二以及有哥哥姐姐等因素之间存在显著关系（0.05 > 0）。
提高电子健康素养可能是减少作为国家未来母亲的少女健康焦虑的有效策略。因此，制定全面的网络空间使用计划、创建简单易懂的媒体和教育材料，以及对电子健康素养不足的人群进行有效的教育干预，可能是培养健康素养技能并最终减少青少年健康焦虑的有效举措。
