Table 1.

Scores for low and high eHealth literacy groups’ consumption of information on the Internet

Variable		Low		High		F	P value
		Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Information source (index)		2.62	0.65	2.75	0.73	11.01	<.001
	Books	2.23	1.16	2.59	1.34	26.30	<.001
	Newspapers and magazines	2.64	1.14	2.87	1.22	12.40	<.001
	Internet	3.26	0.92	3.81	0.93	112.78	<.001
	Radio and television	2.81	1.13	2.79	1.23	0.68	.794
	Pharmacist	2.21	1.25	2.15	1.26	0.86	.355
	Nurse or physician	3.41	1.25	3.54	1.26	3.55	.06
Search quantity/variety (index)		1.75	0.59	2.05	0.73	66.28	<.001
Variety of search strategies (index)		2.16	0.74	2.59	0.90	87.08	<.001
Information evaluation (index)		4.29	0.68	4.53	0.50	52.21	<.001