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Evaluating computing students' digital skills and health literacy: A case from Bulgaria

The main purpose of this article is to describe the importance and the challenges of digital health literacy as recognized during the COVID-19 pandemic. First, basic definitions of health literacy and digital health literacy are provided, followed by, and matched against digital competence framework...

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Autores principales: Kaloyanova, Kalinka, Leventi, Nikoleta, Kaloyanova, Elitsa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9902705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36761337
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1085842
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description The main purpose of this article is to describe the importance and the challenges of digital health literacy as recognized during the COVID-19 pandemic. First, basic definitions of health literacy and digital health literacy are provided, followed by, and matched against digital competence frameworks, and health literacy skills content and scales. Based on that, a compatibility analysis is provided, against the expectations for satisfactory levels definition for the respective competences and skills. For the approbation of the approach, results received from the participation of computing students at the Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski in the COVID-19 Health Literacy Survey are used.
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spelling pubmed-99027052023-02-08 Evaluating computing students' digital skills and health literacy: A case from Bulgaria Kaloyanova, Kalinka Leventi, Nikoleta Kaloyanova, Elitsa Front Public Health Public Health The main purpose of this article is to describe the importance and the challenges of digital health literacy as recognized during the COVID-19 pandemic. First, basic definitions of health literacy and digital health literacy are provided, followed by, and matched against digital competence frameworks, and health literacy skills content and scales. Based on that, a compatibility analysis is provided, against the expectations for satisfactory levels definition for the respective competences and skills. For the approbation of the approach, results received from the participation of computing students at the Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski in the COVID-19 Health Literacy Survey are used. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-01-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9902705/ /pubmed/36761337 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1085842 Text en Copyright © 2023 Kaloyanova, Leventi and Kaloyanova. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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