Survey of E-Health Literacy among Employees of State-Owned Banks in Tehran During 2020

Abstract

Background & Objective: Developing new Information and Communication technologies has had a significant effect on all of science and knowledge area, including health science. Due to the large number of Electronic resources that product Health content, having health literacy for all of people in society is necessary and useful. This study aimed to identity E-health literacy among employees of state-owned Banks in Tehran in spring and summer of 2020. Materials and Methods: This is descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study. Statistical populations include 348 employees of 7 state-owned Banks in Tehran who were selected using sample size formula of Cochran and with a confidence level of 95%. Electronic Health Literacy Questionnaire used to collect data. The reliability and validity of the Persian translation of e-Health Literacy Questionnaire has been reviewed by Bazm et al .We also used Mean, Standard Subdivision, Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal-Wallis test and SPSS software (version 21) to analysis them. Result: Findings show that E-health literacy of examined employees was more than average level and close to good place (30.61). Level of and cognition to Health resources available on the Internet by the average of 4.07 was identified as the highest Indicator and Level of and cognition to way of searching and seeking health information resources in the Internet were identified as the lowest indicator effect to E-health literacy of examined employees. Also findings show that there are significant different between E-health literacy and some Demographic characteristics like Sex, Degree, Level of English Language Knowledge, and also Level of Computer Knowledge among examined employees (P <0.05). Conclusion: Although the E-health literacy level of the examined community is in a good condition; but Since the new health information and communication technologies in the web, internet and social networks increasingly are going to expanding, development of staff training knowledge and science with Learning information retrieval and information behavior skills by them, Caused to upgrade and improve of their E-health literacy knowledge and consequently Increasing their personal and social health will follow.