Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Soellner, Renate
• Huber, Stefan
• Reder, Maren

Titel

The concept of eHealth literacy and its measurement: German translation of the eHEALS scale

Ist Teil von

• Journal of media psychology, 2014, Vol.26 (1), p.29-38

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The objective of this study was to translate the eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS) into German, to evaluate this translation through psychometric testing in a German sample of adolescents, and to analyze whether the content-derived hypothesis of two eHEALS subscales was confirmed by the data. The authors hypothesized that the first subscale would cover self-perceived competence in seeking health information online, and the second subscale information appraisal of health information on the Internet. A cross-sectional survey among 18-year-old students (N = 327) using their translation of the eHEALS was conducted. A confirmatory factor analysis compared the 1-factor model based on Norman and Skinners' analyses with the a priori specified 2-factor model. The results indicated a better fit for the 2-factor model (chi-square difference of 150.93, p ( .0001), supporting the division into subscales. (DIPF/Orig.).