Health literacy, digital health literacy, and COVID-19 pandemic attitudes and behaviors in US college students: implications for interventions

U Patil, U Kostareva, M Hadley, JA Manganello… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by rapidly emerging evidence, changing
guidance, and misinformation, which present new challenges for health literacy (HL) and …

COVID-19 and health information seeking behavior: digital health literacy survey amongst university students in Pakistan

R Zakar, S Iqbal, MZ Zakar, F Fischer - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, digital health literacy (DHL) has become a significant public
health concern. This research aims to assess information seeking behavior, as well as the …

Public information needs during the COVID-19 outbreak: a qualitative study in mainland China

Y Yi, DKW Chiu - Library Hi Tech, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose The impact of COVID-19 has led to a surge in the public's reliance on the Internet
for pandemic information, and the policy of home isolation has exacerbated this. This study …

The impact of health literacy on knowledge and attitudes towards preventive strategies against COVID-19: a cross-sectional study

MJ Silva, P Santos - International journal of environmental research and …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic introduced a set of mitigation
measures based on personal behavior and attitudes. In the absence of vaccination or …

Digital health literacy, online information-seeking behaviour, and satisfaction of Covid-19 information among the university students of East and South-East Asia

MNN Htay, LL Parial, MC Tolabing, K Dadaczynski… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
During the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a growing interest in online information about
coronavirus worldwide. This study aimed to investigate the digital health literacy (DHL) level …

Facing the growing COVID-19 infodemic: digital health literacy and information-seeking behaviour of university students in Slovenia

M Vrdelja, S Vrbovšek, V Klopčič… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The entire world is faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, which is also accompanied by an
infodemic. This refers to the rapid spread of (accurate and false) information, mainly through …

People behavioral during health information searching in COVID-19 era: a review

H Alzghaibi - Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in health information-seeking
behavior (HISB) on the Internet. Objective This review aims to identify and synthesize the …

Digital health literacy and information-seeking behavior among university college students during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study from Denmark

CK Bak, JØ Krammer, K Dadaczynski, O Orkan… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic and the concomitant infodemic have emphasized the importance
of digital health literacy (DHL) to global public health research and practice. The aim of this …

Coronavirus disease 2019 information-seeking behavior globally: a systematic review

TF Anagaw, HA Guadie - SAGE Open Medicine, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: This systematic review aimed to provide a global picture of information-seeking
behavior, source information used, and its associated factors. Methods: This systematic …

Differences in digital health literacy and future anxiety between health care and other university students in England during the COVID-19 pandemic

D Frings, S Sykes, A Ojo, G Rowlands, A Trasolini… - BMC Public Health, 2022 - Springer
Background This study investigates university students' digital health literacy and web-
based information-seeking behaviours during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in …