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Online health information seeking and digital health literacy among information and learning resources undergraduate students
BACKGROUND: During the COVID-19 pandemic, students have trouble coping with the available health information regarding the coronavirus in their daily lives because of misinformation. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to evaluate online health information seeking and digital health literacy among...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9487174/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36158639 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2022.102603 |
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description | BACKGROUND: During the COVID-19 pandemic, students have trouble coping with the available health information regarding the coronavirus in their daily lives because of misinformation. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to evaluate online health information seeking and digital health literacy among information and learning resources undergraduate students at Taibah University during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: To investigate the primary goal, this study used a simultaneous exploratory mixed methods design. Seventeen students participated in phone interviews, and 306 were invited to complete an online survey. ANALYSIS: The collected data was analyzed using both quantitative (SPSS) and qualitative (NVivo 10) methods. RESULTS: Search engines, social media, and YouTube were most often used by the respondents as sources to search for COVID-19-related information. COVID-19 symptoms, restrictions, and the current spread of COVID-19 were the most searched topics by the respondents. Significant and relevant differences emerged for the digital health literacy subscales “information search” and “adding self-generated content”. However, there were no significant differences in the digital health literacy subscale “determining relevance”. CONCLUSION: Using the internet to provide health information tailored to the needs and interests of students to seek health information online and thereby improve their health literacy. |
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spelling | pubmed-94871742022-09-21 Online health information seeking and digital health literacy among information and learning resources undergraduate students Abdoh, Esra Journal of Academic Librarianship Article BACKGROUND: During the COVID-19 pandemic, students have trouble coping with the available health information regarding the coronavirus in their daily lives because of misinformation. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to evaluate online health information seeking and digital health literacy among information and learning resources undergraduate students at Taibah University during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: To investigate the primary goal, this study used a simultaneous exploratory mixed methods design. Seventeen students participated in phone interviews, and 306 were invited to complete an online survey. ANALYSIS: The collected data was analyzed using both quantitative (SPSS) and qualitative (NVivo 10) methods. RESULTS: Search engines, social media, and YouTube were most often used by the respondents as sources to search for COVID-19-related information. COVID-19 symptoms, restrictions, and the current spread of COVID-19 were the most searched topics by the respondents. Significant and relevant differences emerged for the digital health literacy subscales “information search” and “adding self-generated content”. However, there were no significant differences in the digital health literacy subscale “determining relevance”. CONCLUSION: Using the internet to provide health information tailored to the needs and interests of students to seek health information online and thereby improve their health literacy. Elsevier Inc. 2022-11 2022-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9487174/ /pubmed/36158639 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2022.102603 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Abdoh, Esra Online health information seeking and digital health literacy among information and learning resources undergraduate students |
title | Online health information seeking and digital health literacy among information and learning resources undergraduate students |
title_full | Online health information seeking and digital health literacy among information and learning resources undergraduate students |
title_fullStr | Online health information seeking and digital health literacy among information and learning resources undergraduate students |
title_full_unstemmed | Online health information seeking and digital health literacy among information and learning resources undergraduate students |
title_short | Online health information seeking and digital health literacy among information and learning resources undergraduate students |
title_sort | online health information seeking and digital health literacy among information and learning resources undergraduate students |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9487174/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36158639 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2022.102603 |
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