A conceptual model of the impacts of quality components of a health department website on students' health literacy at Semnan University of Medical Sciences

Mehdi Kahouei; Ali Mohammadi; Javad Zarei; Nasrollah Nasr Heidarabadi; Ali Valinejadi

doi:10.19082/6796

A conceptual model of the impacts of quality components of a health department website on students' health literacy at Semnan University of Medical Sciences

Electron Physician. 2018 May 5;10(5):6796-6802. doi: 10.19082/6796. eCollection 2018 May.

Authors

Mehdi Kahouei¹, Ali Mohammadi², Javad Zarei³, Nasrollah Nasr Heidarabadi⁴, Ali Valinejadi⁵

Affiliations

¹ Ph.D. of Health Information Management, Associate Professor, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran.
² Ph.D. of Health Information Management, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Information Technology, Paramedical School, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran.
³ Ph.D. of Health Information Management, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Information Technology, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.
⁴ Ph.D. of Medical Informatics, Department of Information Technology, Shefa Neuroscience Research Center, Khatam-ol-Anbia Hospital, Tehran Iran.
⁵ Ph.D. of Health Information Management, Assistant Professor, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran.

PMID: 29997764
PMCID: PMC6033135
DOI: 10.19082/6796

Abstract

Background: People with poor health literacy are those who have less knowledge about disease management and health promotion behaviors, and generally have poorer health status.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of qualitative components of the health website of Semnan University of Medical Sciences on the students' health literacy.

Methods: This study was performed on 529 medical and allied health students in schools affiliated to Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Iran in 2016-2017. A researcher-made questionnaire and standard questionnaire were used. Descriptive statistics and regression test were used by SPSS 19 to analyze data in significance level of 0.01.

Results: The findings showed that there were poor relationships between communications in the health website and health literacy (R²=0.265, B=0.50), between understanding of concepts in the health website and health literacy (R²=0.259, B=0.38) and patient centeredness in the health website and health literacy (R²=0.241, B=0.30).

Conclusion: It is concluded that the empowerment of students' health literacy through the University Health Department website can be realized when the health department website is used as a tool for learning and the website is much more active in social marketing in the field of health.

Keywords: Health literacy; Learning; Models; Students; Theoretical; Universities.