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Everyday health information literacy and attitudes towards digital health services among Finnish older adults |
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| Author: | Eriksson-Backa, Kristina1; Ahmad, Farhan2; Huvila, Isto3; |
| Organizations: |
1Information Studies, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland 2Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland 3Department of ALM, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
4Information Studies, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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| Format: | article |
| Version: | accepted version |
| Access: | embargoed |
| Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2022062047951 |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Springer Nature,
2022
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| Publish Date: | 2023-04-06 |
| Description: |
AbstractEveryday health information literacy (EHIL) denotes people’s confidence and perceptions of their capability to obtain, evaluate, and use health information in everyday life. This paper presents results from a survey of older Finns on how EHIL relates to perceptions of digital health services. A postal survey was conducted with a random sample of 1,500 Finns aged 55–70 years. In total, 373 completed surveys (25%) were returned. We used an adapted screening tool to measure EHIL and subject position scales to indicate attitudes towards digital health services. The data were analysed using PLS-SEM in SmartPLS 3.0. The analysis suggested that EHIL is positively related to more positive attitudes to digital health services and negatively to more negative attitudes to such services. The results emphasise the importance of EHIL as an enabler of the acceptance of digital health services. The study also introduces new methods for analysing EHIL. see all
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| Series: |
Communications in computer and information science |
| ISSN: | 1865-0929 |
| ISSN-E: | 1865-0937 |
| ISSN-L: | 1865-0929 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-030-99885-1 |
| ISBN Print: | 978-3-030-99884-4 |
| Volume: | 1533 |
| Pages: | 314 - 325 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-99885-1_27 |
| OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99885-1_27 |
| Host publication: |
Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era. ECIL 2021 |
| Host publication editor: |
Kurbanoğlu, Serap Špiranec, Sonja Ünal, Yurdagül Boustany, Joumana Kos, Denis |
| Conference: |
European Conference on Information Literacy |
| Type of Publication: |
A4 Article in conference proceedings |
| Field of Science: |
518 Media and communications |
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| Funding: |
This research was conducted as part of the project Taking Health Information Behaviour into Account: implications of a neglected element for successful implementation of consumer health technologies on older adults (HIBA), funded by the Academy of Finland 2015–2020. (Grant no. 287084). |
| Copyright information: |
© 2022 Springer Nature Switzerland AG. “This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era. ECIL 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1533. The final authenticated version is available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99885-1_27.
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