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due linguistic cultural barriers immigrants often limited access health information online health information popular accessible quality questionable benefits dependent individuals ehealth literacy study examined online health informationseeking behaviours ehealth literacy predictors among firstgeneration chinese immigrants sample 356 chinese immigrants living australia completed anonymous paperbased survey including sociodemographic clinical data english proficiency health literacy online health informationseeking behaviours ehealth literacy linear regression models analyzed predictive factors ehealth literacy participants aged mean 593 years female 683 531 completed university english proficiency rated fairpoor 751 participants perceived online health information useful 616 important 562 health health information accessed often related lifestyle 612 health resources 449 diseases 360 medications 309 inadequate health literacy ehealth literacy occurred 483 449 respectively age number technological devices used education health status independently associated ehealth literacy chinese immigrants used online health information many inadequate ehealth literacy healthcare authorities providers support older immigrants lower education poorer health less engaged technology online health information use providing culturally linguistically appropriate information directing immigrants credible websites involving health material development processes