Characteristics
Domains assessed:
Information seeking: Interactive media navigation
Specific context:
Health Promotion
Validation sample population age:
Adolescents: 10 to 17 years
Modes of administration in validation study:
Paper and pencil, Face-to-face
Psychometrics
Number of items:
8
Sample size in validation study:
216
Language of validated version:
Mandarin
Main article reference
Koo, M., Norman, C., & Chang, H.M. (2012). Psychometric evaluation of a Chinese version of the eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS) in school age children. International Journal of Health Education, 15:29-36.
Link to articleCorresponding author
Malcolm Koo
Description
To assess consumers' combined knowledge, comfort, and percieved skills at finding, evaluating, and applying electronic health information to health problems
Year Measure first Published: 2012
About This Measure
Categorical scoring:
No
Scoring categories:
5-point Likert scale ranging from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree", yielding a score for each item from 1-5
About the Validation of this Measure
Country where validated:
Taiwan
Content validity:
English version of the eHEALS was translated into Chinese by a bilingual Chinese-native speaker. A pilot version of the C-eHEALS was reviewed by 4 elementatry school teachers whose native language was Mandarin to explore the readability and age appropriateness of the language in the instrument. The questionnaire was also administered to 30 school children who were asked to indicate whether they understood the questions or found them difficult to answer.
Reliability (Cronbach Alpha):
0.92
