Guanghui Cui|Shaojie Li|Yongtian Yin|Li-jun Chen|Jia?Qin Li|Fengyuan Liang|Xinyao Liu|Lei Chen
The relationship among social capital, eHealth literacy and health behaviours in Chinese elderly people: a cross-sectional study
Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine|Central South University|Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine|Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine|Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine|Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine|Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine|Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
abstract background social capital linked health behaviours underlying mechanism unclear previous studies found health literacy played role mediator relationships among social capital individual physical activity nutrition clear whether ehealth literacy mediates impact social capital health behaviours therefore research aimed explore relationships among social capital structural cognitive social capital ehealth literacy health behaviours elderly people analyse mediating effect ehealth literacy providing theoretical basis health behaviour intervention elderly people methods january february 2019 conducted crosssectional survey 1201 chinese people aged 60 years using chinese shortened social capital scale contains two subscales structural social capital cognitive social capital ehealth literacy scale healthpromoting lifestyle profile used structural equation modelling test hypothetical mediation model results mean scores social capital 7207 sd 1303 1724 sd 934 ehealth literacy 11223 sd 2325 health behaviours social capital ehealth literacy significantly correlated health behaviours social capital structural social capital significantly correlated ehealth literacy lastly ehealth literacy mediated relationship structural social capital health behaviours conclusions ehealth literacy important mediating factor elderly peoples structural social capital health behaviours therefore social capital ehealth literacy must considered designing implementing health behaviour intervention programmes elderly people