1Nursing Department, Kyungwoon University, Gumi, 39160, Korea
*Corresponding Author: So-Young Lee, Professor, Nursing Department, Kyungwoon University, Gumi, Korea. Email: 108959@naver.com
Online published on 24 April, 2019.
Many people use the internet for health information, Nursing students should be well acquainted with e- health information and resources to better provide information for their patients.
Participants were 138 undergraduate nursing students in D, K, U city. Questionnaires were used to measure levels of health literacy, e-Health literacy, and health promoting behavior. The data were collected from April 2,2018 to May 2,2018. Data were analyzed using t-test, ANOVA, Pearson Correlation Coefficient by SPSS for Windows 21.0 program.
e-Health literacy and subjective health condition were high and ability to understand health information was in the middle. The degree of health promoting behavior was a little low. Participants’ ability to understand health information came from the following: ability to understand inter active health information, understand critical health information, understand functional health information. E-Health information comprehension ability appeared in the order of use ability, solution ability, evaluation ability. The major factor influencing health promoting behavior intention was e-Health literacy.
These results suggest that Health literacy, e-Health literacy interventions should focus on improving the quality of health promoting behavior.
Health literacy, e-Health literacy, Health promoting behavior, Subjective health status, Nursing students
