Table 5.
Correlations between: % of patients accessing online health information within a month, Opinion about the general quality of online health information, and Opinion on patients’ experience of health benefits, as a result of access to online health information and digital and e-Health variables.
| Digital Literacy—Own Skills | Digital literacy—The Need for Training | Assessment of the Impact of the Internet/New Technologies on Healthcare and Modern Life | Recommendation of e-Health Solutions | Evaluation of e-Health Solutions—The Patient | Evaluation of e-Health Solutions—Medical Facility | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
| % of patients accessing online health information within a month | ||||||||||||
| <1% | −0.08 | 1.62 | 0.55 | 1.20 | −0.31 | 0.83 | −0.48 | 1.28 | −0.38 | 0.69 | −0.04 | 0.59 |
| 1–2% | −0.02 | 1.15 | 0.03 | 1.05 | 0.12 | 0.72 | −0.15 | 1.51 | 0.48 | 1.30 | −0.01 | 1.34 |
| 3–5% | −0.10 | 1.08 | −0.15 | 0.70 | −0.06 | 0.87 | −0.01 | 0.95 | −0.07 | 0.76 | 0.15 | 0.88 |
| 6–10% | 0.03 | 0.89 | −0.04 | 1.02 | 0.12 | 0.99 | 0.12 | 0.99 | 0.15 | 1.18 | 0.11 | 1.32 |
| >10% | −0.14 | 0.70 | 0.27 | 0.91 | −0.18 | 1.02 | −0.07 | 0.84 | −0.31 | 0.76 | −0.09 | 0.77 |
| it is difficult to estimate | 0.25 | 1.15 | −0.32 | 1.12 | 0.22 | 1.11 | 0.14 | 1.03 | 0.30 | 1.13 | −0.03 | 1.11 |
| Opinion about the general quality of online health information | ||||||||||||
| reliable | −1.00 | 1.07 | 0.06 | 0.93 | −0.82 | 0.43 | −1.52 | 1.15 | −0.85 | 0.44 | −0.16 | 0.76 |
| usually reliable | −0.08 | 1.08 | −0.28 | 0.87 | −0.04 | 0.72 | −0.29 | 0.89 | −0.14 | 0.79 | 0.01 | 0.91 |
| sometimes reliable | −0.07 | 0.83 | 0.10 | 0.95 | −0.05 | 1.04 | 0.04 | 0.98 | −0.07 | 0.79 | 0.15 | 1.03 |
| unreliable | 0.19 | 1.10 | 0.13 | 1.22 | 0.13 | 0.97 | 0.18 | 0.92 | 0.19 | 1.30 | −0.23 | 0.90 |
| no opinion | 0.74 | 1.18 | −0.44 | 0.94 | 0.54 | 1.31 | 0.67 | 0.68 | 0.75 | 1.59 | −0.53 | 1.11 |
| Opinion on patients’ experience of health benefits as a result of access to online health information | ||||||||||||
| often | −1.06 | 0.83 | 0.18 | 0.86 | −0.50 | 0.57 | −1.53 | 0.86 | −0.84 | 0.39 | −0.23 | 0.81 |
| sometimes | 0.00 | 0.64 | 0.04 | 0.98 | −0.16 | 0.86 | −0.30 | 0.79 | −0.27 | 0.72 | −0.05 | 0.94 |
| seldom | −0.14 | 0.93 | 0.13 | 1.13 | 0.07 | 1.15 | 0.13 | 0.95 | −0.06 | 1.08 | 0.03 | 1.05 |
| never | 0.65 | 1.10 | 0.98 | 1.08 | 0.57 | 0.89 | 1.05 | 0.59 | 0.73 | 1.14 | −0.27 | 0.84 |
| no opinion | 0.19 | 1.23 | −0.29 | 0.82 | 0.12 | 1.04 | 0.34 | 0.94 | 0.37 | 1.06 | 0.10 | 1.08 |
| An assessment of patients’ use of online health knowledge | ||||||||||||
| very positive | −0.62 | 1.30 | −0.10 | 0.99 | −0.52 | 0.89 | −1.51 | 1.14 | −0.72 | 0.59 | −0.11 | 0.77 |
| positive | 0.09 | 1.00 | −0.09 | 0.66 | 0.13 | 0.95 | −0.23 | 0.91 | −0.12 | 0.66 | −0.21 | 0.70 |
| meaningless | −0.24 | 0.99 | −0.01 | 1.08 | −0.31 | 0.98 | −0.21 | 1.10 | −0.20 | 1.06 | −0.17 | 0.97 |
| negative | 0.02 | 0.92 | 0.21 | 1.03 | −0.01 | 0.82 | 0.19 | 0.85 | 0.04 | 0.96 | 0.21 | 1.08 |
| very negative | 0.31 | 1.07 | −0.44 | 1.01 | 0.42 | 1.35 | 0.34 | 0.96 | 0.46 | 1.23 | −0.05 | 1.07 |