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Everyday Health Information Literacy and Attitudes Towards Digital Health Services Among Finnish Older Adults

Authors: Eriksson-Backa Kristina, Ahmad Farhan, Huvila Isto, Enwald Heidi, Hirvonen Noora

Editors: Kurbanoğlu Serap, Špiranec Sonja, Ünal Yurdagül, Boustany Joumana, Ko Denis

Conference name: European Conference on Information Literacy

Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

Publishing place: Cham

Publication year: 2022

Journal: Communications in Computer and Information Science

Book title : Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era: 7th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2021, Virtual Event, September 20-23, 2021, Revised Selected Papers

Journal name in source: Communications in Computer and Information Science

Series title: Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volume: 1533

First page : 314

Last page: 325

ISBN: 978-3-030-99884-4

eISBN: 978-3-030-99885-1

ISSN: 1865-0929

eISSN: 1865-0937

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99885-1_27

Web address : https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-99885-1_27

Abstract

Everyday health information literacy (EHIL) denotes people’s confidence and perceptions of their capability to obtain, evaluate, and use health information in everyday life. This paper presents results from a survey of older Finns on how EHIL relates to perceptions of digital health services. A postal survey was conducted with a random sample of 1,500 Finns aged 55–70 years. In total, 373 completed surveys (25%) were returned. We used an adapted screening tool to measure EHIL and subject position scales to indicate attitudes towards digital health services. The data were analysed using PLS-SEM in SmartPLS 3.0. The analysis suggested that EHIL is positively related to more positive attitudes to digital health services and negatively to more negative attitudes to such services. The results emphasise the importance of EHIL as an enabler of the acceptance of digital health services. The study also introduces new methods for analysing EHIL.