{"id":8647,"date":"2021-04-05T10:11:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T17:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8647"},"modified":"2021-04-06T10:12:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T17:12:10","slug":"health-literacy-digital-health-literacy-and-covid-19-pandemic-attitudes-and-behaviors-in-u-s-college-students-implications-for-interventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/05\/health-literacy-digital-health-literacy-and-covid-19-pandemic-attitudes-and-behaviors-in-u-s-college-students-implications-for-interventions\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Literacy, Digital Health Literacy, and COVID-19 Pandemic Attitudes and Behaviors in U.S. College Students: Implications for Interventions"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among 256 US college students surveyed in June 2020, only 49% reported adequate health literacy (HL) and 57% found digital health literacy (DHL) tasks easy overall. DHL tasks included searching for health information online. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both HL and DHL were independently associated with overall compliance with basic preventive practices<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for COVID-19.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">H<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">igher DHL was significantly associated with greater willingness to get a COVID-19 vaccine,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> while HL was not<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Patil et al. (Mar 23, 2021). Health Literacy, Digital Health Literacy, and COVID-19 Pandemic Attitudes and Behaviors in U.S. College Students: Implications for Interventions. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/ijerph18063301\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/ijerph18063301<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among 256 US college students surveyed in June 2020, only 49% reported adequate health literacy (HL) and 57% found digital health literacy (DHL) tasks easy overall. DHL tasks included searching for health information online. Both HL and DHL were independently associated with overall compliance with basic preventive practices for COVID-19. Higher DHL was significantly associated&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/05\/health-literacy-digital-health-literacy-and-covid-19-pandemic-attitudes-and-behaviors-in-u-s-college-students-implications-for-interventions\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[203,29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-8647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-college","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8648,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647\/revisions\/8648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8647"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}