The Relationship between the Subjective Health Status, e-Health Literacy, Health Literacy and Health Promoting Behavior in Under Graduate Nursing Students

Abstract

Background: Many people use the internet for health information, Nursing students should be well-acquainted with e- health information and resources to better provide information for their patients.
Method: Participants were 138 undergraduate nursing students in D, K, U city. Questionnaires were used to measure levels of health literacy, e-Health literacy, and health promoting behavior. The data were collected from April 2,2018 to May 2,2018. Data were analyzed using t-test, ANOVA, Pearson Correlation Coefficient by SPSS for Windows 21.0 program.
Findings: e-Health literacy and subjective health condition were high and ability to understand health information was in the middle. The degree of health promoting behavior was a little low. Participants’ ability to understand health information came from the following: ability to understand inter active health information, understand critical health information, understand functional health information. E-Health information comprehension ability appeared in the order of use ability, solution ability, evaluation ability. The major factor influencing health promoting behavior intention was e-Health literacy.
Improvements: These results suggest that Health literacy, e-Health literacy interventions should focus on improving the quality of health promoting behavior.