Sarah Nauman Ghazi|Jessica Berner|Peter Anderberg|Johan Berglund
The prevalence of eHealth literacy and its relationship with perceived health status and psychological distress during Covid-19: a cross-sectional study of older adults in Blekinge, Sweden
Blekinge Institute of Technology|Blekinge Institute of Technology|Blekinge Institute of Technology|Blekinge Institute of Technology
abstract background aims ehealth literacy important influences healthpromoting behaviors health ability use ehealth resources essential maintaining health especially covid19 physical psychological health affected study aimed assess prevalence ehealth literacy association psychological distress perceived health status among older adults blekinge sweden furthermore study aimed assess perceived health status influences association ehealth literacy psychological distress methods crosssectional study october 2021december 2021 included 678 older adults participants swedish national study aging care blekinge snacb participants sent questionnaires use information communications technology ict covid19 pandemic study conducted statistical analysis using kruskalwallis oneway analysis variance kendalls taub rank correlation multiple linear regression results found 684 participants moderate high levels ehealth literacy population female age lt 75 mmlmath xmlnsmmlhttpwwww3org1998mathmathmlmmlmrowmmlmoltmmlmommlmn75mmlmnmmlmrowmmlmath years higher education associated high ehealth literacy plt 005 mmlmath xmlnsmmlhttpwwww3org1998mathmathmlmmlmrowmmlmipmmlmimmlmoltmmlmommlmn005mmlmnmmlmrowmmlmath ehealth literacy significantly correlated tau mmlmath xmlnsmmlhttpwwww3org1998mathmathmlmmlmimmlmimmlmath 012 p value0002 associated perceived health status beta mmlmath xmlnsmmlhttpwwww3org1998mathmathmlmmlmimmlmimmlmath 039 p value0008 also significantly correlated tau mmlmath xmlnsmmlhttpwwww3org1998mathmathmlmmlmimmlmimmlmath 012 p value0001 associated psychological distress beta mmlmath xmlnsmmlhttpwwww3org1998mathmathmlmmlmimmlmimmlmath 014 p value0002 interaction ehealth literacy good perceived health status reduced psychological distress beta mmlmath xmlnsmmlhttpwwww3org1998mathmathmlmmlmimmlmimmlmath 030 p value0002 conclusions crosssectional study found point prevalence ehealth literacy among older adults living blekinge sweden moderate high positive finding however still differences among older adults based factors female younger 75 years highly educated good health without psychological distress results indicated psychological distress could mitigated pandemic increasing ehealth literacy maintaining good health status