Table 6.
Spearman Rank Correlations between eHEALS Items and Predictors remaining in the Stepwise Linear Regression Model Predicting eHealth Literacy
| eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS) items | Very severe vs. mild to severe perceived COPDa |
COPD knowledge |
COPD self-efficacy |
Lung-specific HRQoL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) I know what health resources are available on the Internet. |
0.262** (.001) |
0.239** (.001) |
0.126 (.010) |
-0.136 (.073) |
| (2) I know where to find helpful health resources on the Internet. |
0.209** (.005) |
0.118 (.119) |
0.158* (.037) |
-0.125 (.098) |
| (3) I know how to find helpful health resources on the Internet. |
0.146 (.053) |
0.065 (.391) |
0.194** (.001) |
-0.151* (.045) |
| (4) I know how to use the Internet to answer my health questions. |
0.208** (.006) |
0.144 (.057) |
0.124 (.102) |
-0.116 (.126) |
| (5) I know how to use the health information I find on the Internet to help me. |
0.164* (.029) |
0.238** (.001) |
0.241** (.001) |
-0.242** (.001) |
| (6) I have the skills I need to evaluate the health resources I find on the Internet. |
0.100 (.185) |
0.145 (.055) |
0.254** (.001) |
-0.241** (.001) |
| (7) I can tell high-quality from low- quality health resources on the Internet. |
0.185* (.014) |
0.133 (.078) |
0.251** (.001) |
-0.195** (.001) |
| (8) I feel confident in using information from the Internet to make health decisions. |
0.140 (.064) |
0.147 (.052) |
0.141 (.062) |
-0.114 (.131) |
Note. ( ) Actual p values in parentheses
a
Results of Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon Test
*
p<.05.
**
p<.01