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eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS), ready to run

An 8-item measure of perceived ability to find, evaluate, and use online health information.

8 items · 5-point Likert scale

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Read-only. Nothing is saved until you have an account. Then the eHEALS is imported into a new study with its full item wording, in the structure shown below.

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Item wording for the eHEALS is available inside Folio Surveyor, subject to the instrument's licensing. The structure below (its sections, items and response scale) is what gets built for you.

The instrument

  • 8 items

Each item is answered on this scale:

Strongly disagreeDisagreeUndecidedAgreeStrongly agree

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Creating an account builds this study for you (the full wording of all 8 items, scoring, reverse-keyed items and subscale totals already wired up) and gives you a link to send participants.

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← Back to the eHEALS reference page · Metadata and item wording are provided for research use; cite the original publication.