title: eHealth Literacy Scale: An Nursing Analisys and Italian Validation.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  One of the scales most used to measure quickly and easily eHealth Literacy is the eHealth LiteracyScale (eHEALS); however, there was no validation of this scale in Italian. Therefore, the aim of this study was to adapt and validate the eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS) to the italian context.
  
  
  METHODS
  Italian translation of eHEALS was administered along unit to another two scale for measure lifestyle habits self-esteem and life satisfaction). A sample of 650 university students aged between 18 and 45 years was selected. An exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, analysis of invariance, reliability, stability and bivariate correlations were performed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Exploratory factor analysis revealed a monofactorial structure that explained 67% of variance. Reliability of 0.87 and test-retest correlation of 0.78 was obtained. The questionnaire was invariant by gender. Regarding the criterion validity, a statistically significant and positive correlations between 0.05 and 0.15 with three indicators was obtained (self-esteem, lifestyle habits and life satisfaction). The italian version of the eHEALS tested in this work has shown to be a valid and reliable scale to measure eHealth competence in university students.
authors.affiliation: Roma/IT, University of Rome sapienza.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: De Caro
authors.affiliation: Roma/IT, University of Rome sapienza.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Corvo
authors.affiliation: Roma/IT, University of Rome sapienza.
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Marucci
authors.affiliation: Roma/IT, University of Rome sapienza.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mitello
authors.affiliation: Terni/IT, University of L'Aquila.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lancia
authors.affiliation: Roma/IT, University of Rome sapienza.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sansoni
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D057220:Health Literacy; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008019:Life Style; D008875:Middle Aged; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012649:Self Concept; D013334:Students; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017216:Telemedicine; D014177:Translations; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult