s The Government's 2002 Communications Bill (Draft) promises for the first time to 'promote media literacy' among the population of the UK, improving public awareness and understanding of contents and services provided through electronic media. s In order to establish the present level of media literacy among the UK population, and in order to set the benchmark against which future initiatives ...

BACKGROUND Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a sleep disorder that disproportionately affects African Americans (hereafter referred to as blacks). Moreover, blacks may underutilize sleep services including overnight polysomnography. Thus, OSA among blacks may go undiagnosed and untreated, which has significant health consequences, including hypertension, diabetes, cognitive impairment, and dayti...

The emergence of the knowledge society implies that every citizen must be digitally literate in order to be on a better footing in terms of equal opportunities in a world in which digital functions are proliferating (Merchant 2004). In the knowledge society, those who can use the new media are more advantaged than those who do not. While the possession of basic ICT skills is now taken for grant...

Today’s university students are exposed to a vast amount of Information and Communication Technologies, both professionally and privately. The Internet and various technological devices have changed study habits of students across the globe. Much research has focused on students’ information literacy, that means the lifelong need to be able to recognize when information is needed, to locate and...

BACKGROUND With the digitization of health care and the wide availability of Web-based applications, a broad set of skills is essential to properly use such facilities; these skills are called digital health literacy or eHealth literacy. Current instruments to measure digital health literacy focus only on information gathering (Health 1.0 skills) and do not pay attention to interactivity on the...

The global internet market has grown very rapidly in the past decade and continues to bring global communities closer together. Its development and deployment has occurred differently in all parts of the globe reflecting the developed, developing and underdeveloped economies of the world. The three largest global regions from an economic perspective are North America, Asia, and Europe. These re...

BACKGROUND Increasing application and use of information systems and mobile technologies in the healthcare industry require increasing nurse competency in computer use. Computer literacy is defined as basic computer skills, whereas computer competency is defined as the computer skills necessary to accomplish job tasks. Inadequate attention has been paid to computer literacy and computer compete...

The advent of the Internet-based applications into the academic settings engendered a wide range of dynamic virtual paradigms such as e-learning, e-research, and digital libraries. The networked information and e-learning processes however have brought about information overload and search anxiety to the end-users. Such phenomena created urgent needs for developing effective eliteracy scenarios...

BACKGROUND Health policies increasingly promote e-health developments (e.g., consumers' access to online health information) to engage patients in their health care. In order to make these developments available for culturally and socially diverse communities, not only do Internet accessibility, literacy and e-health literacy need to be taken into account, but consumers' preferences and informa...