Hamed Rezakhani Moghaddam|Soheila Ranjbaran|Towhid Babazadeh
The role of e-health literacy and some cognitive factors in adopting protective behaviors of COVID-19 in Khalkhal residents
Lorestan University of Medical Sciences
background several vaccines recently generated utilized prevent covid19 mortality although disease causing many fatalities worldwide preventative practices prioritized even vaccines available therefore study aimed identify role ehealth literacy cognitive factors adopting protective behaviors covid19 khalkhal residents methods present crosssectional study recruited 380 people aged 1865 according cluster sampling september 2021 december 2021 khalkhal county iran reliable validated tools applied data collection including ehealth literacy scale eheals persian cognitive factors assessment questionnaire based health belief model hbm data analyzed using chisquare oneway anova independent samples test bivariate correlation predictors also determined using hierarchical linear regression analysis results average age participants 3526 1151 years regression analysis implied gender p value 0032 education level p value 0001 occupational status p value 0002 income p value 0001 marriage p value 0001 statistically significant associations ehl additionally education level p value 0001 occupational status p value 0001 income p value 0001 marriage p value 0002 revealed statistically significant associations covid19 preventive behaviors approximately 165 variation covid19 protective behaviors explained cognitive factors demographic variables overall demographic cognitive ehl variables able explain roughly 355 variation covid19 protective behaviors furthermore selfefficacy strongest predictor protective behaviors 0214 conclusions hbm constructs successfully predicted role ehealth literacy cognitive factors adopting covid19 protective behaviors people high socioeconomic levels better ehealth literacy covid19 protective behaviors pandemic moreover applying approaches adopting covid19 protective behaviors essential especially low socioeconomic status ses groups