Assessment of the pharmacy students’ e-health literacy and mobile health application utilization

Assessment of the pharmacy students’ e-health literacy and mobile health application utilization

The aim of this study is to evaluate pharmacy students’ behaviours towards mobile health applications and e-health literacy. This electronic descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted in pharmacy students in Istanbul, Turkey for two months. A questionnaire was designedbased on the previous studies to evaluate knowledge and behaviours, point of view and perception about mobile health apps in pharmacy students. Turkish version of the eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS) was applied to the pharmacy students. The response rate was 88.10% (n=229). Among 260 pharmacy students, mobile health apps usersand male pharmacy studentshad statistically higher eHEALS score when compared with non-users and female pharmacy students (p

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