Saeideh Valizadeh-Haghi|Shahabedin Rahmatizadeh
eHealth literacy and general interest in using online Health information: a survey among patients with dental diseases
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences|Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
aim study explore ehealth literacy general interest using ehealth information among patients dental diseasesa total 171 patients dental diseases completed survey including eheals effect participants age gender education ehealth literacy assessed spearmans correlation coefficient also used assess correlation importance access health information usefulness internet decisionmakingthe mean score ehealth literacy participants 3055 sd4069 participants age significant effect ehealth literacy level t3573 pvalue0002 moreover significant correlation total score ehealth literacy importance access ehealth information r033 n171 p0s001 difference ehealth literacy terms educational background showed statistically significant differences f1179 pvalue0322the participants high level ehealth literacy determining ehealth literacy among dental patients leads better understanding problems health decisionmakingdental institutions efforts aim raise awareness online health information quality encourage patients use evaluation tools especially among low electronic health literate patients