Jiyeon Lee|Eun?Hyun Lee|Duckhee Chae
eHealth Literacy Instruments: Systematic Review of Measurement Properties
Yonsei University|Ajou University|Chonnam National University
internet major source health information growth internet users ehealth literacy emerged new concept digital health care therefore health professionals need consider ehealth literacy consumers providing care utilizing digital health technologiesthis study aimed identify currently available ehealth literacy instruments evaluate measurement properties provide robust evidence researchers clinicians selecting ehealth literacy instrumentwe conducted systematic review metaanalysis selfreported ehealth literacy instruments applying updated cosmin consensusbased standards selection health measurement instruments methodologythis study included 7 instruments 41 articles describing 57 psychometric studies identified 4 databases pubmed cinahl embase psycinfo ehealth literacy instrument provided evidence measurement properties ehealth literacy scale eheals originally developed singlefactor structure definition ehealth literacy rise social media mobile web instrument evaluated 18 different languages 26 countries involving diverse populations however various factor structures exhibited 7 types twofactor structures 3 types threefactor structures 1 bifactor structure transactional ehealth literacy instrument tehli developed reflect broader concept ehealth literacy demonstrated sufficient lowquality lowquality evidence content validity relevance comprehensiveness comprehensibility sufficient highquality evidence structural validity internal consistency however instrument rarely evaluatedthe ehealth literacy scale frequently investigated instrument however strongly recommended instruments content updated reflect recent advancements digital health technologies addition transactional ehealth literacy instrument needs improvements content validity psychometric studies increase credibility synthesized evidence