AUTHOR=Nie Limei , Zhao Jiajia , Pan Lutong , Pang Mingli , Wang Jieru , Zhou Yue , Chen Rui , Liu Hui , Xu Xixing , Su Baochen , Kong Fanlei 

TITLE=Validation of the digital health literacy assessment among the university students in China

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Public Health

VOLUME=Volume 11 - 2023

YEAR=2024

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1294183

DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2023.1294183

ISSN=2296-2565

ABSTRACT=Purpose: WithWith the development of the internet, digital health literacy (DHL) has becomeis increasingly increasingly important for managing health., Consequently, various which furtherly made the digital health literacy scales have been created for different groups. The purpose of this study was to verify the reliability and validity of the simplified Chinese version of the Digital Health Literacy Assessment (DHLA) scale among the university students in China.Method: Snowball sampling was used to recruit the participants via an online platform (Wenjuan.com), and finally 304 university students were included in the survey. Demographic information and the status of DHL were collected through the online questionnaire. Cronbach's alpha and split-half reliability were used to test the internal consistency of the scale, while the structural validity was verified by exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. Additionally, the convergence of the scale was tested by composite reliability (CR) and average variance extracted (AVE).Result: Two dimensions were generated from 10 entries in the scale, named Self-rated Digital Health Literacy and Trust Degree of Online Health Information respectively. The Cronbach's alpha and splithalf reliability of the total scale were 0.912 and 0.828, while the Cronbach's alpha of the two