Health literacy and digital media use: Assessing the Health Literacy Skills Instrument – Short Form and its correlates among African American college students

Improving health literacy is increasingly seen as a solution to health problems and inequalities. This study assesses how one of the more recent measures of health literacy, the Health Literacy Skills Instrument – Short Form, performs among African American college students, and ascertains if and ho...

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Autores principales: Rosenbaum, Judith E., Johnson, Benjamin K., Deane, Amber E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2018
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6016563/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29942630
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055207618770765
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description Improving health literacy is increasingly seen as a solution to health problems and inequalities. This study assesses how one of the more recent measures of health literacy, the Health Literacy Skills Instrument – Short Form, performs among African American college students, and ascertains if and how media use relates to health literacy. Results indicate that both the use of health-related websites and apps as well as overall time spent with the media were positively, but conditionally, linked to health literacy. However, findings also pointed to the need for further test development.
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spelling pubmed-60165632018-06-25 Health literacy and digital media use: Assessing the Health Literacy Skills Instrument – Short Form and its correlates among African American college students Rosenbaum, Judith E. Johnson, Benjamin K. Deane, Amber E. Digit Health Original Research Improving health literacy is increasingly seen as a solution to health problems and inequalities. This study assesses how one of the more recent measures of health literacy, the Health Literacy Skills Instrument – Short Form, performs among African American college students, and ascertains if and how media use relates to health literacy. Results indicate that both the use of health-related websites and apps as well as overall time spent with the media were positively, but conditionally, linked to health literacy. However, findings also pointed to the need for further test development. SAGE Publications 2018-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6016563/ /pubmed/29942630 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055207618770765 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Creative Commons NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work as published without adaptation or alteration, without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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