Year: 2024 | Month: June | Volume: 11 | Issue: 6 | Pages: 349-353
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20240641
Level of E-health Literacy in Physiotherapy students of Gujarat - A Survey
Dr. Shreya Trivedi (PT)
Department of Physiotherapy, Assistant Professor, Krishna School of Physiotherapy, Drs. Kiran & Pallavi Patel Global University, Vadodara, India
ABSTRACT
INTROCUTION: The skills and ability to access health care resources digitally is understood as E-health literacy. With the increasing use of the internet, digital devices and advancement in health care systems, the ability and need to develop E-health literacy is increased and may have a huge impact on health care providers and health care seekers in the future. This area is not yet explored, and less literature is available, hence the need of study arises. This study was aimed to evaluate the level of E-health literacy in Physiotherapy students of Gujarat. E-health literacy scale (Eheals) is a valid tool to assess the level of E-health literacy among various health care providers.
RESULT: 310 graduate students (83 males, 227 females) across the physiotherapy colleges of Gujarat filled the form and data was analysed using Microsoft excel-Windows 11 version 22H2. 75% students considered that internet is useful and important still the level of confidence to use it was found low among physiotherapy students of Gujarat state.
CONCLUSION: The level of E-health literacy is found moderate to low in Physiotherapy students of Gujarat. There is a vast scope of further studies in this area.
Keywords: E-health literacy, Health, Physiotherapy, Digitalization in health care, health
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