Effects of eHealth Literacy on General Practitioner Consultations: A Mediation Analysis.

Peter Johannes Schulz Mary Anne FitzPatrick Alexandra Claudia Hess Lynn Sudbury-Riley Uwe Hartung

Published in: Journal of medical Internet research (2017)

The indirect paths from health literacy via information seeking and empowerment to GP consultations can be interpreted as a dynamic process and an expression of the ability to find, process, and understand relevant information when that is necessary.

Keyphrases

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