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COVID‐digital health literacy and subjective well‐being of students in Ghana: Mediation‐moderation analyses

BACKGROUND: Previous research has established a strong association between COVID‐19 digital health literacy (DHL) and subjective well‐being among several populations, including students. With the growing misinformation and heightened fear of COVID‐19 among persons with an underlying medical conditio...

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Autores principales: Quansah, Frank, Ankomah, Francis, Agormedah, Edmond K., Abieraba, Richard S. K., Srem‐Sai, Medina, Hagan, John E., Okan, Orkan, Dadaczynski, Kevin, Schack, Thomas
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9679230/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36425902
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hsr2.916
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author Quansah, Frank
Ankomah, Francis
Agormedah, Edmond K.
Abieraba, Richard S. K.
Srem‐Sai, Medina
Hagan, John E.
Okan, Orkan
Dadaczynski, Kevin
Schack, Thomas
author_facet Quansah, Frank
Ankomah, Francis
Agormedah, Edmond K.
Abieraba, Richard S. K.
Srem‐Sai, Medina
Hagan, John E.
Okan, Orkan
Dadaczynski, Kevin
Schack, Thomas
author_sort Quansah, Frank
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description BACKGROUND: Previous research has established a strong association between COVID‐19 digital health literacy (DHL) and subjective well‐being among several populations, including students. With the growing misinformation and heightened fear of COVID‐19 among persons with an underlying medical condition, several scholars have questioned the direct relationship between DHL and well‐being. This study assessed the moderating roles of information accuracy concerns and the existence of an underlying medical condition among students. METHODS: Using a cross‐sectional design, a multi‐stage sampling approach was used to select 1392 students from senior high schools in Northern Ghana who completed a questionnaire containing information on DHL, information accuracy, subjective well‐being, and underlying health condition, with reported internal consistency coefficients above 0.70. The data which was processed with SPSS version 25, was analyzed using correlation (Pearson and biserial), and Hayes' PROCESS for the moderation and mediation analyses. RESULTS: A significant positive relationship was found between (a) DHL and subjective well‐being, (b) DHL and information accuracy concerns, and (c) information accuracy concerns and subjective well‐being. However, the prevalence of underlying health condition was negatively associated with information accuracy, DHL, and subjective well‐being. Information accuracy concerns and the existence of an underlying medical condition significantly regulated the relationship between DHL and subjective well‐being. CONCLUSIONS: Demonstrating satisfactory levels of DHL does not necessarily result in improved subjective well‐being. However, emphasis should be placed on whether individuals attach much importance to the accuracy of information retrieved as well as having or not an underlying health condition.
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spelling pubmed-96792302022-11-23 COVID‐digital health literacy and subjective well‐being of students in Ghana: Mediation‐moderation analyses Quansah, Frank Ankomah, Francis Agormedah, Edmond K. Abieraba, Richard S. K. Srem‐Sai, Medina Hagan, John E. Okan, Orkan Dadaczynski, Kevin Schack, Thomas Health Sci Rep Original Research BACKGROUND: Previous research has established a strong association between COVID‐19 digital health literacy (DHL) and subjective well‐being among several populations, including students. With the growing misinformation and heightened fear of COVID‐19 among persons with an underlying medical condition, several scholars have questioned the direct relationship between DHL and well‐being. This study assessed the moderating roles of information accuracy concerns and the existence of an underlying medical condition among students. METHODS: Using a cross‐sectional design, a multi‐stage sampling approach was used to select 1392 students from senior high schools in Northern Ghana who completed a questionnaire containing information on DHL, information accuracy, subjective well‐being, and underlying health condition, with reported internal consistency coefficients above 0.70. The data which was processed with SPSS version 25, was analyzed using correlation (Pearson and biserial), and Hayes' PROCESS for the moderation and mediation analyses. RESULTS: A significant positive relationship was found between (a) DHL and subjective well‐being, (b) DHL and information accuracy concerns, and (c) information accuracy concerns and subjective well‐being. However, the prevalence of underlying health condition was negatively associated with information accuracy, DHL, and subjective well‐being. Information accuracy concerns and the existence of an underlying medical condition significantly regulated the relationship between DHL and subjective well‐being. CONCLUSIONS: Demonstrating satisfactory levels of DHL does not necessarily result in improved subjective well‐being. However, emphasis should be placed on whether individuals attach much importance to the accuracy of information retrieved as well as having or not an underlying health condition. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-11-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9679230/ /pubmed/36425902 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hsr2.916 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Health Science Reports published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Quansah, Frank
Ankomah, Francis
Agormedah, Edmond K.
Abieraba, Richard S. K.
Srem‐Sai, Medina
Hagan, John E.
Okan, Orkan
Dadaczynski, Kevin
Schack, Thomas
COVID‐digital health literacy and subjective well‐being of students in Ghana: Mediation‐moderation analyses
title COVID‐digital health literacy and subjective well‐being of students in Ghana: Mediation‐moderation analyses
title_full COVID‐digital health literacy and subjective well‐being of students in Ghana: Mediation‐moderation analyses
title_fullStr COVID‐digital health literacy and subjective well‐being of students in Ghana: Mediation‐moderation analyses
title_full_unstemmed COVID‐digital health literacy and subjective well‐being of students in Ghana: Mediation‐moderation analyses
title_short COVID‐digital health literacy and subjective well‐being of students in Ghana: Mediation‐moderation analyses
title_sort covid‐digital health literacy and subjective well‐being of students in ghana: mediation‐moderation analyses
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9679230/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36425902
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hsr2.916
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