Development of Saudi e-health literacy scale for chronic diseases in Saudi Arabia: using integrated health literacy dimensions
Development of Saudi e-health literacy scale for chronic diseases in Saudi Arabia: using integrated health literacy dimensions
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DOI：
10.1093/intqhc/mzy033
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发表时间：
2018-05-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Albarrak, Ahmed I.
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作者：
Zakaria, Nasriah;Alfakhry, Ohoud;Albarrak, Ahmed I.
目的：健康素养已成为一个全球性问题，重要的是患者和个人能够使用信息技术来获得健康信息和教育服务。本研究的目标是开发一个沙特电子健康素养量表（SeHL），用于衡量沙特人患非传染性疾病（NCD）的电子健康素养：总体而言，14个相关的跨学科领域的相关论文进行了审查，选择最有用的识字尺寸。从这些文章中，我们提取了用于衡量各学科电子卫生素养的最常见维度。多个研讨会与多学科的团队成员审查和评估项目SeHL.Results：四个关键方面的电子健康素养的技术/媒体的使用，信息寻求，有用性和信心，被确定为电子健康素养的尺寸和集成。这些数据将用于衡量沙特非传染性疾病患者的电子卫生素养。为确保翻译过程准确无误，进行了从阿拉伯文到英文的翻译。开发了一个SeHL量表来衡量沙特患者的电子健康素养。通过了解电子健康素养水平，我们将能够创建一个病人教育系统，由患者在Saudi Arabia.Conclusions：随着信息技术越来越多地被世界各地的所有年龄段的人使用，电子健康素养已被确定为一个关键因素，在确定健康结果。到目前为止，还没有一个全面的量表来评估说阿拉伯语的人，特别是患有糖尿病、心血管疾病和高血压等非传染性疾病的人的电子保健知识水平。
Objective: Health literacy has become a global issue, and it is important that patients and individuals are able to use information technology to access health information and educational services. The research objective is to develop a Saudi e-health literacy scale (SeHL) for measuring e-health literacy among Saudis suffering from non-communicable diseases (NCD).Methods: Overall, 14 relevant papers in related interdisciplinary fields were reviewed to select the most useful literacy dimensions. From these articles, we extracted the most common dimensions used to measure e-health literacy across the disciplines. Multiple workshops with multidisciplinary team members reviewed and evaluated items for SeHL.Results: Four key aspects of e-health literacy-use of technology/media, information-seeking, usefulness and confidence-were identified and integrated as e-health literacy dimensions. These will be used to measure e-health literacy among Saudi patients with NCDs. A translation from Arabic to English was performed in order to ensure that translation process was accurate. A SeHL scale was developed to measure e-health literacy among Saudi patients. By understanding e-health literacy levels, we will be able to create a patient-education system to be used by patients in Saudi Arabia.Conclusions: As information technology is increasingly used by people of all ages all over the world, e-health literacy has been identified as a key factor in determining health outcomes. To date, no comprehensive scale exists to assess e-health literacy levels among speakers of Arabic, particularly among people with NCD such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and hypertension.