Digital Health Literacy About COVID-19 as a Factor Mediating the Association Between the Importance of Online Information Search and Subjective Well-Being Among University Students in Vietnam

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dc.citation.volume3
dc.contributor.authorNguyen LHT
dc.contributor.authorVo MTH
dc.contributor.authorTran LTM
dc.contributor.authorDadaczynski K
dc.contributor.authorOkan O
dc.contributor.authorMurray L
dc.contributor.authorVan Vo T
dc.contributor.editorRiper H
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-24T23:15:41Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-04T01:40:51Z
dc.date.available2021-09-27
dc.date.available2023-07-24T23:15:41Z
dc.date.available2023-09-04T01:40:51Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-27
dc.date.updated2023-07-24T00:48:07Z
dc.description.abstractIntroduction: Digital health literacy (DHL) has recently been proposed as a means of enabling healthy decisions for protective behavior, preventive measures, and adherence with COVID-19 policies and recommendations especially in the era of the “infodemic”. This study aimed to (1) identify COVID-19 related DHL and its association with online information seeking; (2) to elucidate COVID-19 related DHL as a mediator predictor between the importance of online information search and its association with subjective well-being among Vietnamese university students. Methods: A cross-sectional web-based survey was used to elicit the responses of Vietnamese students over 2 consecutive weeks (from April 25 to May 9, 2020, n = 1,003, 70.1% female students, mean age 21.4 ± 3.1). The online survey questionnaire collected data on the sociodemographic characteristics of participants, DHL about COVID-19, information seeking behavior, and subjective well-being. Mediation analysis was conducted using the importance of searching COVID-19 related information as independent variables, subjective well-being as a dependent variable, and DHL as a mediator variable. Results: Among 1,003 students, the mean (SD) of DHL related to COVID-19 was 2.87 ± 0.32. In the survey, 87.2% of the students reported sufficient well-being, while almost 13% reported low or very low well-being. The findings also indicated that search engines were the most popular platform for information seeking by Vietnamese students (95.3%) and 92.8% of participants had searched for information related to the current spread of COVID-19. Not searching for hygiene regulation as part of infection control and an average level of information satisfaction were associated with limited DHL (p < 0.05). The importance of online information searching related to COVID-19 increased the subjective well-being of students significantly and limited DHL (p < 0.05). DHL was found to mediate the relationship between the importance of online information searching and the subjective well-being of students. Conclusion: The finding provides insight into DHL about COVID-19 among university students, and their ability to find, understand, appraise, and use online health related information during lockdown throughout the first COVID-19 pandemic wave. DHL should be highlighted as a mediating factor that enhances the positive effect of the importance of information seeking on psychological well-being. However, further studies are needed to better define the mediating role of DHL across other factors.
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dc.identifier739476
dc.identifier.citationNguyen LHT, Vo MTH, Tran LTM, Dadaczynski K, Okan O, Murray L, Van Vo T. (2021). Digital Health Literacy About COVID-19 as a Factor Mediating the Association Between the Importance of Online Information Search and Subjective Well-Being Among University Students in Vietnam. Frontiers in Digital Health. 3:739476. doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2021.739476
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fdgth.2021.739476
dc.identifier.eissn2673-253X
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/19889
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherFrontiers Media S.A.
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fdgth.2021.739476/full
dc.relation.isPartOfFrontiers in Digital Health
dc.rights(c) The author/s CC BY 4.0en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.subjectVietnamese students
dc.subjectdigital health literacy
dc.subjectsubjective well-being
dc.subjectmediator
dc.titleDigital Health Literacy About COVID-19 as a Factor Mediating the Association Between the Importance of Online Information Search and Subjective Well-Being Among University Students in Vietnam
dc.typeJournal article
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