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) | ||||||
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Median | Skew | Median | Skew | Median | Mean (SD) | P value | ||
| Item 1 | 4 | –1.02 | 4 | –0.76 |
4 |
3.7 (1.1) |
N/A |
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| 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.