The Relationship Between eHealth Literacy and Self-Management in COVID-19 Prevention of the Population in Bangkok and the Metropolitan Region
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eHealth literacy, self-management, COVID-19Abstract
The objective was to study eHealth literacy and self-management in COVID-19 prevention and the relationship between eHealth literacy and self-management in COVID-19 prevention of the population in Bangkok, Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani, and Samut Prakan. This study used online self-administrative questionnaires as a tool to collect information. The 415 samples in this study were calculated using the Taro Yamane method. Data were collected from March to October 2020.
The results found that the sample had an average score of eHealth literacy at 4.02 ± 0.70, a high level. For the gender differences, there was no difference in the level of eHealth literacy (p-value = 0.667). The age differences, education levels, and occupations had different levels of eHealth literacy (p-value < 0.001, 0.029, and 0.032, respectively). The self-management in COVID-19 protection of samples had an average score of 4.08 ± 0.59 which is a high level. The different ages had different levels of self-management in COVID-19 prevention (p-value = 0.012). The gender differences, education levels and occupations had no difference in self-management in COVID-19 prevention (p-value = 0.240, 0.494, and 0.103, respectively). The relationship between eHealth literacy and self-management in COVID-19 prevention from the analysis of Pearson correlation (r) of 0.277 (p-value < 0.001) showed a positive correlation meaning that if there were more eHealth literacy, there would have been good self-management on COVID-19 protection.
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