Maria Gerostathi, Spyridon Doukakis
Proposal for Monitoring Students' Self-Efficacy Using Neurophysiological Measures and Self-Report Scales
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
ehealth resources interventions promise promote favorable behavior change selfefficacy knowledge acquisition thereby improving health literacy however individuals limited ehealth literacy may find difficult identify understand benefit ehealth use necessary identify selfassessed ehealth literacy use ehealth resources classify ehealth literacy levels determine demographic characteristics associated higher lower ehealth literacy skills study aimed identify notable factors closely associated limited ehealth literacy among chinese male populations provide implications clinical practice health education medical research public health policy making hypothesized participants ehealth literacy status associated various demographic characteristics therefore elicited following information questionnaire age education selfassessed disease knowledge 3 welldeveloped health literacy assessment tools ie aspects health literacy scale ehealth literacy scale general health numeracy test 6 internal items health beliefs selfconfidence multidimensional health locus control scales using randomized sampling recruited survey participants qilu hospital shandong university china validating data collected webbased questionnaire survey via wenjuanxing coded valid data according predefined coding schemes likert scales different point score ranges calculated total scores subsections scales entire scale finally used logistic regression modeling associate scores ehealth literacy scale scores aspects health literacy scale general health numeracy test6 age education ascertain factors considerably associated limited ehealth literacy among chinese male populations data 543 returned questionnaires valid according validation criteria interpreting descriptive statistics found 4 factors significantly correlated participants limited ehealth literacy older age lower education attainment lower levels aspects health literacy functional communicative critical weaker beliefs selfconfidence internal drivers strengths stay healthy applying logistic regression modeling ascertained 4 factors significantly correlated limited ehealth literacy among chinese male populations relevant factors identified inform stakeholders engaging clinical practice health education medical research health policy making