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. 2023 Jan 22;20(3):2044. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20032044

Table 1.

eHealth literacy education program overview.

Session Lesson Goal Content
1 Knowledge-building #1:
  • Learning positive health behavior and making it a habit: physical activity and health

  • Introduction to online eHealth literacy intervention and learning objectives

  • Physical activity benefits and recommendations

  • Checking current level of physical activity and setting physical activity plan

2 Knowledge-building #2:
  • Learning positive health behavior and making it a habit: nutrition and healthy eating

  • Understanding basic healthy nutrition and proper eating habits for health

  • Healthy dietary intake practices and recommendation

  • Checking current level of nutrition intake and setting nutrition intake plan

3 Knowledge-building #3:
  • Learning positive health behavior and making it a habit: sleep and health

  • Basic understanding and recommendation of healthy sleep

  • Learning about factors that interfere with healthy sleep and how to eliminate them

  • Checking current sleep habit and planning healthy sleep plan

4 Experience-building #4:
  • Searching for health-related information using the Internet

  • Understanding the concept of eHealth literacy and its basic skills

  • Checking out current eHealth literacy

  • Searching for current health interests using the Internet

  • Finding correct answers to health quizzes using the Internet

5 Experience-building #5:
  • Knowing reliable health-related Internet websites

  • Introduction to reliable health information sites (e.g., Korea National Health Information Portal) and major literature search databases (e.g., PubMed, RISS) in medical and health sciences

  • Retrieving all topics, A-Z pages, on the Korea National Health Information Portal website and finding health topics of one’s interest

  • Finding journal articles and other types of materials on specific health topics on the Internet

6 Experience-building #6:
  • Evaluating reliable health information and health websites

  • Learning how to distinguish the reliability of health information and websites on the Internet

  • Critically evaluating health information and websites

  • Review of all lessons and practices