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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 6.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2011 Sep 12;51(3):267–273. doi: 10.1177/0009922811421413

Table 3.

Caregivers’ Internet Use*

Overall
(N=304)		 Adequate HL
(N=192)		 Limited HL
(N=112)		 P-value
Access to Internet in home 137 (45) 97 (50) 40 (36) .017
E-mail account 162 (54) 114 (59) 48 (43) .008
Number of days use Internet in a
week (range 0–7)^ 		2.63 (2.8) 3.05 (2.9) 1.9 (2.6) .001
Used Internet in past year 222 (73) 156 (81) 66 (60) <.001
Ever accessed health
information on the Internet		 157 (52) 115 (60) 42 (38) <.001
Of those who have ever
accessed health information
on the Internet 		Overall
(N=157) 		Adequate HL
(N=115)		 Adequate HL
(N=42) 		P-value
Looked-up health information for
child on Internet in past year		 97 (62) 71 (62) 26 (62) 1.00
Health information online is easy
to read		 141 (90) 108 (94) 33 (79) .017
Health information online is easy
to understand		 133 (85) 103 (90) 30 (71) .013
*

Results shown as: N (%)

^

Results shown as: Mean (SD)