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Relationship between everyday health information literacy and attitudes towards mobile technology among older people |
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| Author: | Enwald, Heidi1,2,3; Hirvonen, Noora1,2,3; Kangas, Maarit4; |
| Organizations: |
1Information Studies, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland 2Information Studies, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland 3Medical Research Center Oulu, University of Oulu and Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
4Medical Imaging, Physics and Technology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
5Department of Sports and Exercise Medicine, Oulu Deaconess Institute, Oulu, Finland 6Centre for Life Course Epidemiology and Systems Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland |
| Format: | article |
| Version: | accepted version |
| Access: | open |
| Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 0.3 MB) |
| Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2019082926097 |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Springer Nature,
2018
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| Publish Date: | 2019-08-29 |
| Description: |
AbstractIn order to benefit from advanced mobile information technology (AMIT) in e-health services, people need competencies in finding, evaluating, and understanding health-related information in varying everyday life situations, that is, everyday health information literacy (EHIL). This study focused on the relationship between EHIL and AMIT use and attitudes towards it among older adults. A paper questionnaire was posted to a random sample of 1,500 home dwelling subjects aged 65 or more living in Northern Finland. A variety of themes were addressed in the questionnaire including a 4-item version of an EHIL screening tool. The response rate was 61% (n = 918). Older adults with negative attitudes towards or having less experience with mobile information technology were likely to have poor self-estimated EHIL skills. Older people are at risk of marginalization in regard to m-services, and these results should be utilized by decision-makers and software designers in digitalization of services. see all
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| Series: |
Communications in computer and information science |
| ISSN: | 1865-0929 |
| ISSN-E: | 1865-0937 |
| ISSN-L: | 1865-0929 |
| Pages: | 450 - 459 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-74334-9_47 |
| OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74334-9_47 |
| Host publication: |
Information Literacy in the Workplace : 5th European Conference, ECIL 2017, Saint Malo, France, September 18-21, 2017, Revised Selected Papers |
| Host publication editor: |
Barbosa, Simone Diniz Junqueira Chen, Phoebe Filipe, Joaquim Kotenko, Igor Sivalingam, Krishna M. Washio, Takashi Yuan, Junsong Zhou, Lizhu |
| Conference: |
European Conference on Information Literacy |
| Type of Publication: |
A4 Article in conference proceedings |
| Field of Science: |
518 Media and communications 616 Other humanities 520 Other social sciences 113 Computer and information sciences 3141 Health care science |
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| Funding: |
GASEL study has received financial support from the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation (TEKES). The researchers of Åbo Akademi are part of the HIBA project that is being funded by Academy of Finland. |
| Copyright information: |
© Springer International Publishing AG 2018. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Information Literacy in the Workplace : 5th European Conference, ECIL 2017, Saint Malo, France, September 18-21, 2017, Revised Selected Papers. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74334-9_47. |