2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Developing Japanese version of the eHealth Literacy Scale(eHEALS)

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22700688
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Applied health science
Research Institution	Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital and Institute of Gerontology
Principal Investigator	MITSUTAKE Seigo 地方独立行政法人東京都健康長寿医療センター(東京都健康長寿医療センター研究所), 東京都健康長寿医療センター研究所, 研究員 (10520992)
Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha)	OKA Koichiro 早稲田大学, スポーツ科学学術院, 教授 (00318817)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2011
Keywords	eヘルスリテラシー / インターネット / ヘルスリテラシー / 健康増進 / ヘルスコ
Research Abstract	In rapid developing an internet society, ehealth literacy, defined as the ability to seek, find, understand, and appraise them and apply the knowledge gained to addressing or solving a health problem, becomes important to promote health and aid in health care among individuals. However, the eHealth Literacy Scale(eHEALS) was only a scale developed to assess the ehealth literacy. Thus, the present study developed the Japanese version of the eHEALS(J-eHEALS), evaluated its validity and reliability, and examined the association of the ehealth literacy with demographic attributes and characteristics on health information searching among Japanese adults.