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September 10, 2025Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental HealthOpen Access

Assessment of eHealth Literacy in Healthcare Service Users: Construction and Validation of a Measurement Instrument

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JMJuan MoralesCECésar Augusto Eguia Elias

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Instrument reports adequate validity and reliability in ehealth literacy measurement, highlighting critical factors in healthcare users.

Key Points

  • The eHealth-Much instrument shows strong validity with a content validity coefficient of 0.93.
  • Exploratory factor analysis revealed four domains explaining 59.3% of total variance in eHealth literacy.
  • The study involved 1,068 health service users, and reliability coefficients were 0.86 for Cronbach’s alpha and 0.90 for McDonald’s omega.
  • The findings suggest the instrument is suitable for use in both primary and hospital healthcare settings.

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Morales et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c1ae6654b1d3bfb60e620dhttps://doi.org/10.2174/0117450179393541250722062947
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