Seigo Mitsutake|Ai Shibata|Kaori Ishii|Koichiro Oka
Associations of eHealth Literacy With Health Behavior Among Adult Internet Users
Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology|University of Tsukuba|Waseda University|Waseda University
rapidly developing use internet society ehealth literacyhaving skills utilize health information internethas become important prerequisite promoting healthy behavior however little known whether ehealth literacy associated health behavior representative sample adult internet usersthe aim study examine association ehealth literacy general health behavior cigarette smoking physical exercise alcohol consumption sleeping hours eating breakfast eating meals balanced nutrition among adult internet users japanthe participants recruited among registrants japanese internet research service company asked answer crosssectional internetbased survey 2012 potential respondents n10178 randomly blindly invited via email registrants accordance set sample size attributes ehealth literacy assessed using japanese version ehealth literacy scale selfreported health behaviors investigated included never smoking cigarettes physical exercise alcohol consumption sleeping hours eating breakfast eating meals balanced nutrition obtained details sociodemographic attributes sex age marital status educational attainment household income level frequency conducting internet searches determine association health behavior ehealth literacy performed logistic regression analysis adjusted sociodemographic attributes frequency internet searching well health behaviors statistically significant respect ehealth literacy univariate analyseswe analyzed data 2115 adults response rate 2404 214210178 male 4974 10522115 age mean 397 sd 109 years responded survey logistic regression analysis showed individuals high ehealth literacy significantly likely exhibit good health behaviors physical exercise adjusted odds ratio aor 1377 95 ci 11311678 eating balanced diet aor 1572 95 ci 12741940 individuals low ehealth literacywe found health behaviors including exercise balanced nutrition independently associated ehealth literacy among japanese adult internet users