Table 3.
Descriptive statistics of the respondents presented as percentages with Kruskal-Wallis testing between the different countries.
| Variates | Sweden (n=447) | Norway (n=425) | United Kingdom (n=445) | Iceland (n=501) |
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| Highest educational level, n (%) | <.001 | ||||||
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High school | 251 (56.2) | 234 (55.1) | 129 (29) | 181 (36.1) |
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Primary school | 34 (7.6) | 24 (5.6) | 84 (18.9) | 33 (6.6) |
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University | 162 (36.2) | 167 (39.3) | 232 (52.1) | 287 (57.3) |
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| eHealth literacy, n (%) | <.001 | ||||||
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Insufficient | 115 (25.7) | 126 (29.6) | 116 (26.1) | 183 (36.5) |
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Problematic | 195 (43.6) | 202 (47.5) | 166 (37.3) | 215 (42.9) |
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Sufficient | 137 (30.6) | 97 (22.8) | 163 (36.6) | 103 (20.6) |
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| How often they are using apps related to health, n (%) | <.001 | ||||||
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Daily | 64 (14.3) | 71 (16.7) | 107 (24) | 87 (17.4) |
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Weekly | 52 (11.6) | 44 (10.4) | 51 (11.5) | 69 (13.8) |
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Monthly or more seldom | 121 (27.1) | 152 (35.8) | 57 (12.8) | 145 (28.9) |
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Never | 176 (39.4) | 109 (25.6) | 212 (47.6) | 144 (28.7) |
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I don’t know | 34 (7.6) | 49 (11.5) | 18 (4) | 56 (11.2) |
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| Internet is useful, n (%) | .04 | ||||||
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Yes | 312 (69.8) | 261 (61.4) | 306 (68.8) | 341 (68.1) |
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| Internet is an important source for health information, n (%) | .05 | ||||||
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Yes | 365 (81.7) | 328 (77.2) | 330 (74.2) | 395 (78.8) |
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