BACKGROUND The Internet provides a platform to access health information and support self-management by consumers with chronic health conditions. Despite recognized barriers to accessing Web-based health information, there is a lack of research quantitatively exploring whether consumers report difficulty finding desired health information on the Internet and whether these consumers would like a...

Author Details (please list these in the order they should appear in the published article) Please check this box if you do not wish your email address to be published Structured Abstract: Purpose: Digital technologies have transformed what it means to be literate and to experience literacy. Various literacies have been coined to capture this transformation including established literacies like...

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...

effective clinical care requires nurses to obtain the capability of putting the research findings into application. during the recent years, evidence-based nursing (ebn) has proved itself as a way for health care and therapy based on new findings being used in clinical care practices. however, studies show that nurses have problem in evidence-based practice application the most of which reveals...

Recently, secondary school students have been required to have Internet literacy for their school life and study. However, the parents of the students do not want their children to be addicted to the Internet and smart phones due to the heavy use of their devices. In this paper, we analyze the relationship between Internet literacy and the Internet and smart phone addictions with secondary scho...

BACKGROUND The Internet offers diverse opportunities for disease management, through information websites (Health 1.0) and interactive applications such as peer support forums, online consults, and insight into electronic medical records (Health 2.0). However, various skills are required to benefit from Health 1.0 and Health 2.0 applications for one's own health, known as eHealth literacy. OB...

The information technology quotient is on the rise in every field imaginable – computers and the Internet are everywhere. Essential information technology (IT) competencies are often taken for granted, to the detriment of students who lack computing and Internet skills. A standard set of computer skills that clearly define the IT competent individual has yet to be determined. However, an upsurg...

BACKGROUND The majority of Americans now access the Internet, thereby expanding prospects for Web-based health-related education and intervention. However, there remains a digital divide among those with lower income and education, and among Spanish-speaking populations in the United States. Additional concerns are the low eHealth literacy rate among these populations and their interest in Inte...