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Improving Chinese Mothers’ Health Literacy: A Wechat Intervention, Qiong Chen
Improving Chinese Mothers’ Health Literacy: A Wechat Intervention, Qiong Chen
Doctoral Dissertations
The health literacy and eHealth literacy of women during the reproductive age is crucial, as it can affect their health and the health of their children. Promoting health literacy is essential to achieve mothers’ empowerment by improving access to and capacity of using health information effectively. However, functional, interactive, and critical health literacy and eHealth literacy have never been assessed among Chinese women. The first study during this dissertation assessed functional, interactive, and critical health literacy and eHealth literacy among 421 of Chinese mothers with children under 3 years old. The results revealed overall less than optimal level of health …