Population-Based Study Examining the eHealth Literacy
             of the Populations in Flensburg and Tallinn



                             Presentation of a study design

                                    Anna-Lena Pohl1

      1Institute for eHealth and Management in Health Care, Flensburg University of Applied
                                     Sciences, Germany




1. Introduction


The eHealth master course at Flensburg University of Applied Sciences and students
of Tallinn University of Technology are planning a joint student project, designed as a
population-based study, to examine the level of eHealth literacy in the two cities.

     The eHealth literacy of German and Estonian populations has not been evaluated
before. The study is a starting point to collect data and analyse the situation in
Flensburg and Tallinn. The outcome of the study will be published and might serve as
a basis for further research.

      The questionnaire will be based on an already tested and often used
measurement instrument. Additionally, the use of parts of the Digital Health Literacy
Instrument is pioneer work, since this measurement scale was only published in
January 2017. It is not tested and validated by any additional study yet.




2. Study Design


   The target groups are the populations in Flensburg and Tallinn, aged 18+ years.
The selection of participants will be performed randomly. The total number will be
1 000 completed interviews.

   The survey will be performed using computer-based telephone interviews. The
answers will be documented with the use of software.




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    The questionnaire will be designed by the students themselves. It will be based on
eHEALS by Normand and Skinner [1] and the newly published Digital Health
Literacy Instrument, developed by van der Vaart and Drossaert [2].

    The questionnaire and the menu navigation of the software will be tested in a pre-
test with selected participants, totalling 30




References


 1 Norman, C.D., and H.A. Skinner, eHEALS: The eHealth Literacy Scale. Journal
 of Medical Internet Research, 2006. 8: e27.

 2         Van der Vaart, R., and C. Drossaert, (2017): Development of the Digital
 Health Literacy Instrument: measuring a broad spectrum of health 1.0 and health
 2.0 skills. Journal of Medical Internet, 2017. 19(1): e27.




Copyright © 2017 by the paper's authors. Copying permitted for private and academic
purposes. In: H. Gilstad, S. Khodambashi, J. Bjerkan (eds.):
Proceedings of the 4th European Workshop on Practical Aspects of Health Informatics (PAHI
2017), Levanger, Norway, MAY-2017, published at http://ceur-ws.org