Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking
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Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw · Oct 2015
Relationship Between Parental and Adolescent eHealth Literacy and Online Health Information Seeking in Taiwan.
This study examined the relationship between parental and adolescent eHealth literacy and its impact on online health information seeking. Data were obtained from 1,869 junior high school students and 1,365 parents in Taiwan in 2013. ⋯ Similarly, adolescent Internet/health information literacy, eHealth literacy, and parental active use Internet mediation, and parental online health information seeking were associated with an increase in adolescent online health information seeking. The incorporation of eHealth literacy courses into parenting programs and school education curricula is crucial to promote the eHealth literacy of parents and adolescents.