Peter Schulz|Annalisa Pessina|Uwe Hartung|Serena Petrocchi
Effects of Objective and Subjective Health Literacy on Patients’ Accurate Judgment of Health Information and Decision-Making Ability: Survey Study
Università della Svizzera italiana|Università della Svizzera italiana|Università della Svizzera italiana|Università della Svizzera italiana
background interpreting health information acquiring health knowledge become important accumulation scientific medical knowledge ideals patient autonomy health literacy tremendous success concept considered admission well distribution health knowledge internet makes health information much easily accessible ever introduces problems health disinformation major one objective objective study determine whether objective subjective health literacy independent concepts test two associated strongly accurate judgments quality medical website behavioral intentions beneficial health methods survey depression treatments conducted online n362 newest vital sign employed measure objective performancebased health literacy ehealth literacy scale used measure subjective perceptionbased health literacy correlations comparisons means linear binary logistic regression mediation models used determine associations results objective subjective health literacy weakly associated one another r006 p24 high objective health literacy levels associated inclination behave ways beneficial ones others health expb2068 p004 ability recognize lowquality online sources health information 4698 p005 recognition also improved participants choice treatment 3345 plt001 objective health literacy helped people recognize misinformation health websites improved judgment treatment depression conclusions selfreported perceptionbased health literacy treated separate concept objective performancebased health literacy objective health literacy appears potential prevent people becoming victims health disinformation