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. 2020 Mar 13;22(3):e14492. doi: 10.2196/14492

Table 3.

Descriptive statistics of the individual eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS) items and total sum score for the online, paper, and total samples.

eHEALS item Online (n=388) Paper (n=315) Total sample (n=703)

Median Skew Median Skew Median Mean (SD) P value
Item 1 4 –1.02 4 –0.76
4
3.7 (1.1)
N/A
Item 2 4 –0.91 4 –0.95 4 3.7 (1.0) N/A
Item 3 3 –0.55 4 –0.55 4 3.4 (1.0) N/A
Item 4 4 –0.57 4 –0.61 4 3.5 (1.0) N/A
Item 5 4 –0.87 4 –0.95 4 3.7 (0.9) N/A
Item 6 4 –1.40 4 –1.23 4 4.2 (0.9) N/A
Item 7 4 –0.77 4 –0.81 4 3.9 (0.9) N/A
Item 8 3 –0.24 3 –0.21 3 3.0 (1.1) N/A
eHEALS total sum score 30 –0.67 29 –0.76 30 28.5 (6.2) 0.12a (0.12b)

aMedian test.

bWilcoxon rank-sum test.