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Digital health literacy, also known as eHealth literacy, describes the ability to seek, find, understand, and apply health information from the internet to address health problems.
The World Health Organization calls for actions to improve digital health literacy. To develop target group–specific digital health literacy interventions, it is necessary to know the digital health literacy of the general population and relevant subgroups.
This study aims to representatively assess the digital health literacy of the population in Germany and relevant subgroups. The results are meant to facilitate the development of target group–specific digital health literacy interventions. Additionally, this study further explores the associations between digital health literacy and physical health, mental health, life satisfaction, and diverse health behaviors.
Based on the results of this study, Digital health literacy is unevenly distributed within German society.
The results of this study suggest that people with a low level of formal education and people with a low social status would benefit from digital health literacy interventions that address their competencies in the domains of information seeking and information appraisal.
Furthermore, the results suggest that older people would likely benefit from digital health literacy interventions that address their competencies in the domains of information seeking and also information appraisal.
The results provide a starting point for the development of target group–specific digital health literacy interventions.
this kind of study is now a regular must across the globe at atleast state/region levels if not lower to ensure that it provides inputs for an improvement in health campaigns. Given the impact of digital health in helping resume life after covid faster than previously possible, its imperative that govts and grant agencies are updating their awareness of digital health literacy levels of populations on a bi-annual basis atleast