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Association of eHealth Literacy With Colorectal Cancer Knowledge

Original Paper

Association of eHealth Literacy With Colorectal Cancer Knowledge and Screening Practice Among Internet Users in Japan

Seigo Mitsutake1,2*, MS; Ai Shibata3*, PhD; Kaori Ishii3*, PhD; Koichiro Oka3*, PhD

1Laboratory of Health and Behavioral Sciences, Graduate School of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, Saitama, Japan
2Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan
3Faculty of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, Saitama, Japan
*all authors contributed equally

Corresponding Author:
Seigo Mitsutake, MS

Laboratory of Health and Behavioral Sciences
Graduate School of Sport Sciences
Waseda University
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Tokorozawa
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ABSTRACT

Background: In rapidly developing Internet-user societies, eHealth literacy has become important in promoting wellness. Although previous studies have observed that poor health literacy is associated with less knowledge and screening practice of colorectal cancer (CRC), little is known about whether eHealth literacy is associated with these variables.
Objective: The present study examined associations between eHealth literacy, knowledge of CRC, and CRC screening practices.
Methods: Data were analyzed for 2970 Japanese adults (men, 49.9%; mean age ? SD, 39.7 ? 10.9 years) who responded to an Internet-based cross-sectional survey. Knowledge of the definition of CRC, its risk factors and screening practice, previous experience of CRC screening, score on the Japanese version of the eHEALS (J-eHEALS), sociodemographic attributes (sex, age, marital status, educational attainment, and household income level), and frequency of Internet usage were obtained. Sociodemographic attributes and frequency of Internet usage were used as control variables in the multiple regression and logistic regression models.
Results: eHealth literacy was positively associated with CRC knowledge (? = .116, < .001), when the covariables of both eHealth literacy and CRC knowledge were used in the multiple regression model. Moreover, after controlling for sociodemographic factors, which were significantly associated with eHealth literacy and CRC screening practice, an increase of 1 point in the eHEALS score signified that participants were 1.03 times (95% CI = 1.01?1.05) more likely to undergo CRC screening.
Conclusions: Internet users with high eHealth literacy are more likely to have knowledge and previous screening practice related to CRC compared to those with low eHealth literacy.

(J Med Internet Res 2012;14(6):e153)
doi:10.2196/jmir.1927

KEYWORDS

eHealth Literacy; Internet; Colorectal Neoplasms; Consumer Health Information; Health Promotion

The Internet has become a powerful source of information for health and medicine [1,2]. Approximately 70% of Japanese Internet users seek health information on the Internet, with similar estimates reported from the United States [1,3]. Despite the proliferation of health information on websites, a critical issue has emerged?many websites purporting to provide health information are invalid or difficult to understand for individuals with low health literacy [4-7]. Previous studies have observed that limited health literacy is associated with less knowledge and poor preventive behaviors related to chronic diseases [8-10]. Because of the rapid increase in electronic health information resources, it is important that consumers improve their health literacy, and additional methods need to be developed with regard to health care and its promotion in an electronic world. These electronic health tools provide few benefits for a person?s health without ?eHealth literacy,? which is an individual-level factor [11]. eHealth literacy is an individual-level factor defined as ?the ability to seek, find, understand, and appraise health information from electronic sources and apply the knowledge gained to addressing or solving a health problem? [11]. eHealth literacy comprises six core skills or areas of literacy as presented in the original Lily model: (1) traditional literacy and numeracy, (2) health, (3) information, (4) science, (5) media, and (6) computer literacy [11].

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cause of cancer death in the Japanese population, although it is largely preventable [12]. Screening tests such as the fecal occult blood test (FOBT) can reduce the morbidity and mortality of CRC [13-15]. Although the Basic Plan to Promote Cancer Control Programs has aimed to increase cancer screening rates to 50% or higher [16], only 27% of Japanese people aged >40 years have undergone CRC screening tests such as FOBT [12]. Considering the high number of Internet users who seek health information in the community, the Internet may be a key channel for disseminating information about CRC to the general population [17-20]. However, because many websites relating to CRC information are linked to commercial goods or private health services [6], consumers who use such websites without adequate eHealth literacy may purchase inappropriate goods or pay for private health services (eg, purchasing weight-loss pills with unfounded merits and paying for unnecessary services) that are actually detrimental to their health. Moreover, although much of the Internet information about CRC has been reported as being too difficult to understand for people with low health literacy [21], little is known about how eHealth literacy is associated with CRC information obtained from the Internet.

Three studies in the US showed that low health literacy was associated with less knowledge and screening practices of CRC [22-24]. In addition, people with low health literacy were less likely to seek or understand the information found about CRC from various information resources [19]. The Internet has notably become an important source of health information in Japan; this is because the Internet has gained in popularity among ordinary people through the widespread use of personal computers and cell phones [3,21,25]. Therefore, it is necessary to determine whether eHealth literacy may be useful to increase society?s awareness of CRC. Because eHealth literacy is multidimensional, it is important to begin to understand whether dimensions of eHealth literacy [26], separate and distinct from health literacy, are associated with knowledge and screening practices of CRC. However, little is known about the association between eHealth literacy and knowledge and screening practices of CRC. The present study examined this association between eHealth literacy and the knowledge and screening practices of CRC.

Previous studies of eHealth literacy have focused on particular populations: older people [27], college students [28-30], health care students [28], HIV-positive individuals [31], and parents whose children have life-threatening illnesses [32,33]. These studies used the eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS), a simple self-assessment scale for measuring perceived eHealth literacy [27-29,31-33]. The eHEALS was designed to be easy to use and was put through a rigorous testing process to explore the internal consistency, reliability, and validity of the instrument [29]. Vaart et al and Xie used the performance test to measure eHealth literacy [27,34]. Further, Chan et al proposed the methodological framework of eHealth literacy by characterizing complexity of eHealth tasks [35]. However, previous studies have indicated that the eHEALS does not measure all the dimensions of the Lily model of eHealth literacy [26,34]. Moreover, Vaart et al indicated that the validity of the eHEALS was insufficient because of the weak correlation between eHEALS and actual Internet use in searching for health information [34]. However, the eHEALS would appear to be more appropriate for a large-sample Internet-based survey than the performance test. It was believed to be suitable for conducting the Internet-based survey in the present study because of the eHealth literacy needed for Internet users. Therefore, in the present study, eHealth literacy was treated as perceived eHealth literacy because eHEALS was used to assess eHealth literacy [26,27,29].


Participants

Participants were recruited in 2009 from registrants of a Japanese Internet research service company and asked to answer a cross-sectional Internet-based survey. The research company had approximately 1,150,000 voluntarily registered participants and obtained detailed sociodemographic data (eg, sex, age, marital status, educational attainment, household income level) from each participant at the time of registration. The survey requirement in the present study was to collect data from 3000 men and women aged 20?59 years.

To remove selection bias caused by the proportional differences between gender or age group, the participants were classified by gender and placed into four age groups (20?29, 30?39, 40?49, and 50?59 years), and they were allocated equally to the eight sample groups (for each group, n = 375). Potential respondents (n = 12,435) were randomly and blindly invited from the registered samples in accordance with the set sample size and attributes, and they were invited to participate in the survey via email. The number of potential respondents in each stratified sample group was determined by dividing the quota (n = 375) by the response rate for the corresponding sociodemographic group. This rate was computed from the results of numerous previous surveys conducted by the research company (eg, for potential male respondents aged 40?49 years, the quota was 375/mean response rate of 35% = 1072). Internet-based questionnaires were placed in a protected area of a website, and the potential respondents received a specific URL in their invitation email. Potential respondents could log on to the protected area of the website using their unique log-on ID and password. After 375 participants in each group had voluntarily signed an online informed consent form, which had been approved by the institutional review board, and completed the sociodemographic data information form, acceptance of further participants was stopped in each group. The response rate of the total sample was 24.1% (3000/12,435). In addition, to remove the influence of CRC diagnosis, 14 participants diagnosed with the condition were excluded from the analyses. The present study received prior approval from the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Sports Sciences, Waseda University, Japan.

Measurements

Sociodemographic Attributes

The research company provided data on sex, age, marital status, educational attainment, and household income level. These data were collected following the participants? registration with the research company. The participants were asked to select the category that best described their current condition for sex (male, female), age group (20?29, 30?39, 40?49, 50?59), marital status (not married, married), education level (graduate school, college, two-year college, career college, high school, junior high school), and household income (<3 million yen [about US$37,500], 3?5 million yen [about US$37,500?US$62,500], 5?7 million yen [about US$62,500?US$87,500], 7?10 million yen [about US$87,500?US$125,000], and ?10 million yen [about US$125,000]). Moreover, since few participants answered the questions on graduate school, two-year college, career college, and junior high school, the category groups for education level were divided into the following three categories: ? high school graduate (high school and junior high school); two-year college or career college (two-year college and career college); and ? college graduate (graduate school and college).

Frequency of Internet Searching

Daily frequency of information searches on the Internet was assessed by the following four response categories: Every day, 4?5 times/week, 2?3 times/week, or ?1 time/week.

eHealth Literacy

The Japanese version of eHEALS (J-eHEALS) was used to assess eHealth literacy levels of participants [3]. J-eHEALS uses a 5-point Likert scale (ranging from 1, strongly disagree, to 5, strongly agree; score range, 8-40) to measure perceived eHealth literacy for participants. To determine the validity of J-eHEALS, confirmatory factor analysis was conducted using the data from administration of the present survey. This analysis for the eight-item model suggested a good fit for the proposed model (GFI = .988, CFI = .993, RMSEA = .056). In addition, the internal reliability of the test was confirmed using Cronbach alpha coefficient = 0.93 (P < .01).

CRC Knowledge Test

Knowledge of CRC was assessed by 20 true/false questions regarding the definition, risk factors, and screening of CRC. This self-administered test was adapted from previous studies of knowledge and attitudes of CRC [36,37]. The true/false instrument score ranged from 0 (low) to 20 (high).

Previous CRC Screening Practice

The participants were asked whether they had ever undergone CRC screening by answering ?Yes? or ?No?.

Statistical Analyses

Data were analyzed for 2970 adults (response rate: 24.1%) who provided complete information for the study variables. Patients excluded from the data analysis included 16 participants with incomplete information and 14 participants diagnosed with CRC. The t test was used to examine the differences in eHEALS score and CRC knowledge score between male and female and between married and unmarried individuals. In addition, the differences in eHEALS score and CRC knowledge score among three or more category groups (age, education level, household income level, and frequency of Internet searching) were examined using one-way ANOVA. Moreover, a chi-square test was employed to evaluate the proportional differences in CRC screening practice for sociodemographic variables and frequency of Internet searching. In accordance with the analytical methodology adopted in previous studies of health literacy and CRC knowledge and practice [23,24,38], the variables of sociodemographic attributes and frequency of Internet searching (which achieve statistical significance in association with CRC knowledge score and CRC screening practice from bivariate analyses) were included in the multiple regression and logistic regression models as covariates. Subsequently, multiple regression analyses adjusted for these covariates were conducted to examine the association between eHealth literacy and CRC knowledge. Moreover, we performed logistic regression analyses adjusted for these covariates to assess the impact of eHealth literacy on CRC screening practice. Additionally, P < .05 was considered statistically significant in all analyses. Adjusted ORs and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated for each variable. PASW Statistics 18.0 was used to compute the statistics.


Characteristics of Respondents

Table 1 presents characteristics of the respondents. In the current study, the mean age (SD) of study participants was 39.7 (10.9) years, and 49.9% (n = 1483) of the participants were males. Overall, 60.9% (n = 1809) of the respondents were married, approximately 51.6% (n = 1534) had graduated from college or graduate school, and 23.6% (n = 702) were educated to a level below a high school diploma. Of the respondents, 17.4% (n = 516) had a household income <3 million yen (about US$37,500) and 13.3% (n = 396) earned >10 million yen (about US$125,000). Seventy percent (n = 2086) of respondents used the Internet every day. The mean J-eHEALS score was 23.5 (SD = 6.5). Overall, 58.9% (n = 1748) had high eHealth literacy and 41.1% (n = 1222) of the respondents had a low eHealth literacy level. The mean CRC knowledge test score was 13.8 (SD=2.4). Approximately 59.5% (n = 1766) had a high level of knowledge about CRC, and 19.7% (n = 584) had previously undergone CRC screening.

Association Between eHealth Literacy and CRC Knowledge Adjusted for Covariates

Table 2 presents the differences in eHEALS score and CRC knowledge score with sex and marital status using the t test. Also, Table 3 shows the differences in eHEALS score and CRC knowledge score with age group, education level, household income, and frequency of Internet searching using the one-way ANOVA. In bivariate analyses, education level was not statistically significantly related to eHealth literacy (P = .07). Moreover, education level (P = .136) and frequency of Internet searching (P = .08) were not statistically significantly related to CRC knowledge test score. Since sex, age group, marital status, and household income were statistically associated with both eHealth literacy level and CRC knowledge level, these variables were included in the multiple regression model as controlling factors.

Table 4 presents the results of the multiple regression analyses for the association between eHealth literacy and CRC knowledge after controlling for sex, age group, marital status, and household income. The regression model was significant and accounted for 4.6% of the CRC knowledge (R = .221, adjusted R2 = .046, P < .001). When all the controlled variables were entered into the regression model, eHealth literacy was found to be positively associated with CRC knowledge (? = .116, structure coefficient = .602). In addition, all the controlled variables were significant contributors to the knowledge score of CRC. Moreover, age was a stronger contributor than the other controlled variables.

Association Between eHealth Literacy and CRC Screening Practice Adjusted for Covariates

Table 5 presents the differences of CRC screening practice with sociodemographic characteristics and frequency of Internet searching using the chi-square test. From the sample, the chi-square test indicated that sex (P = .38) and frequency of Internet searching (P = .173) were not related to CRC screening practice. By contrast, participants who had undergone CRC screening were more likely to be older adults (P < .001), be married (P < .001), have a higher education level (P = .03), and have higher household income (P < .001) than reference groups.

Table 6 presents the results of the logistic regression for the association between eHealth literacy and the CRC screening practice after controlling for age, marital status, education level, and household income level. After controlling for these factors, an increase in the eHEALS score by 1 point signified that the subjects of the present study were 1.03 times (95% CI = 1.01?1.05) more likely to undergo CRC screening.

Source: http://www.jmir.org/2012/6/e153/

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    What they found was water flow acts as a shearing force -- not unlike a nail file -- against objects, working them into specific shapes. Starting from a clay ball, the flowing water sheared the sides away, producing a cone with a pointed face. Likewise, the clay cylinder was sculpted into a triangular shape. The researchers then sought to confirm these findings by replicating the experiment using a computer model. These results were consistent with the experimental findings, revealing in a computer simulation how the shape was maintained as the body eroded away.

    "Water acts tangentially to the surface of objects and skims off material to create these unique shapes," explained Ristroph. "In a sense, it works as a sculptor to naturally mold materials into new forms."

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    The research was supported by grants from the U.S. Department of Energy (DE-FG02-88ER25053) and the National Science Foundation (DMS-1103876, MRI-0821520).

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    Please click here to read a 2011 interview I conducted with Pinter on this pattern, and some ways to break it.

    One way, as I wrote recently, is for President Obama and the next Congress to convene experts and reexamine federal programs that, in the end, boost losses in such unnatural disasters.

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    Head injury, pesticides tied to Parkinson's disease

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