Heather L Phillips, Eleanor K Jator, Shelley R Latchem, Timothy A Catalano
Clinical Educators' Teaching Approaches and Attributes in Laboratory Medicine
Laboratory medicine
older people group greatest digital gap digital literacy important improve conditions age study conducted pre postevaluation digital literacy dl intervention people aged 60 years total 56 participants experimental group n 32 control group n 24 recruited convenience community centers intervention adapted needs participants five facetoface sessions remote reinforcement three months carried trained university students five months sociodemographic variables selfperception socioeconomic level education among others evaluated impact assessed using digital literacy scale mdpq16 indicators frequency types internet mobile phone use health literacy sahlsa nsv quality life sf12 hedonic wellbeing dieners swls cummins pwi perceived social support using zimet scale intervention significant impact effect size r 027 digital literacy separate ttest comparisons revealed markedly significant change digital literacy experimental group prepost ttest31 356 p 0001 control group t23 0082 p 093 direct impact health literacy healthrelated quality life hedonic wellbeing identified examined indirect impact change digital literacy found correlated improvements wellbeing social support well quality life individuals significant changes detected compared change evaluation contributes identifying elements improvement future interventions discusses importance culturally adapting continuing education older people