Shaojie Li|Guanghui Cui|Atipatsa Chiwanda Kaminga|Sixiang Cheng|Huilan Xu
Associations Between Health Literacy, eHealth Literacy, and COVID-19–Related Health Behaviors Among Chinese College Students: Cross-sectional Online Study
Central South University|Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine|Central South University|Mzuzu University|Central South University|Central South University
background covid19 pandemic internet significantly spread information providing people knowledge advice health protection regarding covid19 previous study demonstrated health ehealth literacy related covid19 prevention behaviors studies focused relationship health literacy ehealth literacy covid19related health behaviors latter includes preventative behaviors also conventional health behaviors objective objective study develop verify covid19related health behavior questionnaire explore status structure examine associations behaviors participants health literacy ehealth literacy methods snowball sampling method adopted recruit participants complete anonymous crosssectional questionnaire surveys online assessed sociodemographic information selfreported coronavirus knowledge health literacy ehealth literacy covid19related health behaviors results 1873 college students recruited 781 417 adequate health literacy mean ehealth literacy score 3016 sd 631 covid19related health behavior questionnaire presented twofactor structurecovid19specific precautionary behaviors conventional health behaviorswith satisfactory fit indices internal consistency cronbach 79 mean score covid19related health behaviors 5377 sd 803 scores differed significantly plt05 respect residence college year academic major family economic level selfreported health status family member friend infected coronavirus health literacy level linear regression analysis showed health literacy ehealth literacy positively associated covid19specific precautionary behaviors health literacy149 ehealth literacy368 plt001 conventional health behaviors health literacy219 ehealth literacy277 plt001 conclusions covid19related health behavior questionnaire valid reliable measure assessing health behaviors pandemic college students higher health literacy ehealth literacy actively adopt covid19related health behaviors additionally compared health literacy ehealth literacy closely related covid19related health behaviors public intervention measures based health ehealth literacy required promote covid19related health behaviors pandemic may helpful reduce risk covid19 infection among college students