Development of the eHealth Literacy Assessment Toolkit, eHLA

TY - JOUR

T1 - Development of the eHealth Literacy Assessment Toolkit, eHLA

AU - Lauritzen, Dorthe Furstrand

AU - Kayser, Lars

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - In a world with rising focus on the use of eHealth, the match between the competences of the individual and the demands of eHealth systems becomes increasingly important, thus making assessment of eHealth literacy as a measure of user competences a vital element. We propose the eHealth Literacy Assessment toolkit, eHLA, evaluating the user by seven scales: computer familiarity, confidence, incentive and performance as well as functional health literacy, health literacy self-assessment and health literacy performance, as a first step toward development of technology that accommodates the literacy level of the user.

AB - In a world with rising focus on the use of eHealth, the match between the competences of the individual and the demands of eHealth systems becomes increasingly important, thus making assessment of eHealth literacy as a measure of user competences a vital element. We propose the eHealth Literacy Assessment toolkit, eHLA, evaluating the user by seven scales: computer familiarity, confidence, incentive and performance as well as functional health literacy, health literacy self-assessment and health literacy performance, as a first step toward development of technology that accommodates the literacy level of the user.

KW - Computer Literacy

KW - Health Literacy

KW - Humans

KW - Self-Assessment

KW - Telemedicine

UR - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26262273

UR - http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/26262273

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 26262273

SN - 0926-9630

VL - 216

SP - 971

EP - 971

JO - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

JF - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

ER -