Titilayo Olaoye, Blessing Osie-Efietie, Ololade O Ogunsanmi, Adebayo M Mustapha, Ifeoluwapo Asekun-Olarinmoye, Nnodimele Onuigbo Atulomah
Evaluation of a school-based health education program on hepatitis B virus infection prevention practice in rural South-Western, Nigeria
BMC public health
digital health literacy wields pivotal role individuals health status terms seeking choosing appropriate accurate information useful services vast array choices study aimed assessing validity reliability turkish version digital health literacy instrument dhli examining relationship dhl healthy lifestyle behaviors participants x z generations study conduct crosssectional webbased survey online selfreport questionnaire built convenience sample snowball approach used study conducted among 1274 respondents aged 18 64 years data collection tools consisted personal information form lifestyle behavior scale ii hlbs ii dhli cultural validation psychometric testing dhli exploratory factor analysis confirmatory factor analysis cronbachs alpha test bivariate multivariate regression analysis used statistical analysis study turkish version dhli tool consisting six dimensions proved valid reliable deemed appropriate use across age groups average digital health literacy respondents sufficient mean healthy lifestyle behavior scores moderate positive significant relationship total mean scores dhli hlbs among subdimensions dhli highest mean scores dhli reliability dhli privacy dhli search dhli navigation dhli relevance showed lowest mean scores dhli reliability dhli relevance dhli adding content statistically significant predictors healthrelated behaviors respondents important feature novelty study although dhli scale widely translated use many countries translated adapted turkish first time herein study offers crucial evidence generation x zs dhl level positive relationships healthrelated behaviors therefore community partners lead way empowering individuals understand use online information effective secure healthpromoting manner along governments