Donrie Purcell|Gesulla Cavanaugh|Kamilah B. Thomas-Purcell|Joshua Caballero|Drenna Waldrop?Valverde|Victoria Ayala|Rosemary Davenport|Raymond L. Ownby
e-Health Literacy Scale, Patient Attitudes, Medication Adherence, and Internal Locus of Control
health literacy related variety health outcomes including disease control healthrelated quality life risk death studies investigated relation electronic health literacy ehealth literacy outcomes mechanism may relatedsecondary data drawn participants larger study chronic disease selfmanagement age 40 years older least one chronic health condition health literacy score 8th grade validated short form rapid estimate adult literacy medicine participants completed ehealth literacy scale eheals multidimensional health locus control scale modified version attitudes toward health care providers scale athcps wake forest physician trust scale wfpts gonzalezlu adherence questionnaire hypothesized relations evaluated bootstrapped path analytic model using mplus statistical softwareparticipants included 334 individuals mean age 575 years 173 women 161 men black indigenous people color accounting 833 participants white individuals making 167 participants model results showed controlling age education gender race eheals score significantly related athcps wfpts gonzalezlu adherence questionnaire p 05 eheals score significantly related multidimensional health locus control scale analysis indirect effects showed portion relation ehealth literacy patient attitude adherence mediated internal locus control p 05in study ehealth literacy related important patient attitude behavior variables via locus control finding implications importance improving patients ability use internet access effectively use health information hlrp health literacy research practice 202372e80e88