Health Information Literacy and Competencies of Information Age Students: Results from the Interactive Online Research Readiness Self-Assessment (RRSA)

Lana Ivanitskaya; Irene O'Boyle; Anne Marie Casey

doi:10.2196/jmir.8.2.e6

Health Information Literacy and Competencies of Information Age Students: Results from the Interactive Online Research Readiness Self-Assessment (RRSA)

Lana Ivanitskaya, Irene O'Boyle, Anne Marie Casey

Central Michigan University

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Abstract

This study aimed to measure the proficiency of college-age health information consumers in finding and evaluating electronic health information; to assess their ability to discriminate between peer-reviewed scholarly resources and opinion pieces or sales pitches; and to examine the extent to which they are aware of their level of health information competency.

Original language	American English
Journal	Journal of Medical Internet Research
Volume	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.8.2.e6
State	Published - Jan 1 2006
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

information literacy
health information
electronic health information
evaluation of electronic resources
telecommunications

Disciplines

Information Literacy
Library and Information Science

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