Digital health literacy and its determinants among community dwelling elderly people in Taiwan.

Background: Digital Health Literacy (DHL) is crucial in navigating digital health environments, yet few studies focus on older adults.

Objective: Explore the associations of digital health information and resource utilization, IT-related social support, and barriers/enhancers to digital health service usage with DHL among older adults.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted from January 2022 to April 2023, involving 417 individuals over the age of 60 who were interviewed using an instrument for collecting data on DHL, social support, barriers/enhancers influencing use of digital health resources and personal/demographic data.

Personalized Intervention to Improve Medication Adherence for Persons with Multiple Sclerosis.

Purpose: To evaluate the acceptability, retention, and efficacy of face-to-face intervention, incorporating education and Motivational Interviewing (MI) to support persons with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (PwRRMS) and increase self-reported medication adherence.

Patients And Methods: PwRRMS (N = 60) prescribed Disease Modifying Treatment (DMT), who were identified as non-adherent and consented to participate in an intervention, received verbal education and counseling from their treating physician, a tailored MI counseling and a booster session via telephone with a health psychologist, and a concluding MI counseling six months later. Each PwRRMS filled a battery of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) at baseline, six and 12 months later.

Reducing intervention- and research-induced inequalities to tackle the digital divide in health promotion.

Social inequalities are an important contributor to the global burden of disease within and between countries. Using digital technology in health promotion and healthcare is seen by some as a potential lever to reduce these inequalities; however, research suggests that digital technology risks re-enacting or evening widening disparities. Most research on this digital health divide focuses on a small number of social inequality indicators and stems from Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) countries.

Using an Intervention Mapping Approach to Improve Adherence to Disease-Modifying Treatment in Multiple Sclerosis.

Background: Up to 50% of individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) who are prescribed disease-modifying treatments (DMTs) do not take them as advised. Although many studies report on DMT adherence rate, few studies report on interventions involving individuals with MS. The current paper describes the development of an intervention aimed at improving adherence to DMTs among identified nonadherent individuals with MS.

Refined Analysis of Older eHealth Users From an Agency Perspective: Quantitative Telephone Interview Study.

Background: Most studies on the eHealth divide among older people have compared users to nonusers and found that age, gender, and education were associated with eHealth misuse. They assumed that these characteristics were structural barriers to eHealth adoption. Furthermore, eHealth practices have been examined in a narrow and incomplete way, and the studies disagree about the association between health conditions and eHealth use.

Immigrant generation, acculturation, and mental health literacy among former Soviet Union immigrants in Israel.

Background: Research on Mental Health Literacy (MHL) has been growing in different geographical and cultural contexts. However, little is known about the relationship between immigrant generations, acculturation, stigma, and MHL among immigrant populations.

Aims: This study aims to examine differences in MHL among immigrant generations (first, 1.

Medication habits among persons with multiple sclerosis.

Background: Though habitual behavior is part of medication-taking behavior, studies of adherence to medication among persons with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (PwRRMS) have not prospectively examined habit in relation to disease-modifying treatments (DMTs).

Objectives: 1. Examine habit dimensions - repetition, lack of awareness, and lack of control - across time and route of administration (oral vs.

Ethnic Differences in Attitudes and Preventive Behaviors Related to Alzheimer's Disease in the Israeli Survey of Aging.

Objectives: To examine ethnic differences in attitudes and preventive behaviors related to Alzheimer's Disease (AD) in Israel.

Methods: A household representative sample included 1198 older adults ( age = 70.78, SD = 9.

Individual and collective protective responses during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in 10 different countries: Results from the EUCLID online survey.

Background: In times of unprecedented infectious disease threats, it is essential to understand how to increase individual protective behaviors and support for collective measures. The present study therefore examines factors associated with individual and collective pathways.

Methods: Data was collected through an online survey from 4483 participants (70.

White Paper: Open Digital Health - accelerating transparent and scalable health promotion and treatment.

In this White Paper, we outline recommendations from the perspective of health psychology and behavioural science, addressing three research gaps: (1) What methods in the health psychology research toolkit can be best used for developing and evaluating digital health tools? (2) What are the most feasible strategies to reuse digital health tools across populations and settings? (3) What are the main advantages and challenges of sharing (openly publishing) data, code, intervention content and design features of digital health tools? We provide actionable suggestions for researchers joining the continuously growing Open Digital Health movement, poised to revolutionise health psychology research and practice in the coming years. This White Paper is positioned in the current context of the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring how digital health tools have rapidly gained popularity in 2020-2022, when world-wide health promotion and treatment efforts rapidly shifted from face-to-face to remote delivery. This statement is written by the Directors of the not-for-profit Open Digital Health initiative (n = 6), Experts attending the European Health Psychology Society Synergy Expert Meeting (n = 17), and the initiative consultant, following a two-day meeting (19-20th August 2021).

Developing habit-based health behaviour change interventions: twenty-one questions to guide future research.

Objective: Habitual behaviours are triggered automatically, with little conscious forethought. Theory suggests that making healthy behaviours habitual, and breaking the habits that underpin many ingrained unhealthy behaviours, promotes long-term behaviour change. This has prompted interest in incorporating habit formation and disruption strategies into behaviour change interventions.

Translational Research in Cancer Screening: Long-Term Population-Action Bridges to Diffuse Adherence.

The population-level implementation of innovative, evidence-based medical recommendations for adopting health-behaviors depends on the last link in the translation chain: the users. "User-friendly" medical interventions aimed at engaging users to adopt recommended health behaviors are best developed in a collaborative bio-medical and social sciences setting. In the 1990s, National Breast and Colorectal Cancer Early Detection Programs were launched at the Israeli Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology.

Group differences in health literacy are ameliorated in ehealth literacy.

Background: Heath literacy and eHealth literacy are skills that enable individuals to seek, understand and use information in ways which promote and maintain health. The present study examined group differences (ethnicity, immigration) in both literacies and whether there exists an association between the literacies and potential outcomes/gains in health behaviors, health care utilization, perceived health and perceived outcomes of Internet search.

Methods: Participants included 819 Israeli men and women who responded to a nationally representative random-digital-dial (RDD) telephone survey.

Concordance Between Persons with Multiple Sclerosis and Treating Physician on Medication Effects and Health Status.

Background: As the number of treatment options for multiple sclerosis (MS) has expanded, alignment between physician and patient on effects of medication has emerged as important for medication persistence/discontinuation.

Objective: To evaluate physician-patient agreement levels on medication effect and health status.

Methods: Persons with MS (PwMS) (n=71) participated in a cross-sectional study collecting their satisfaction (using the Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication), intention to dis/continue treatment and global health perception; physicians assessed response to medication and global health status.

Involuntary psychiatric hospitalizations in Israel 2001-2018 and risk for immigrants from different countries.

Since 2000, the Israeli mental health system has undergone a reduction in hospital beds, initiation of community-based rehabilitation, and transfer of governmental services to health maintenance organizations. This study examined trends, predictors and outcomes of involuntary psychiatric hospitalizations (IPH), in particular for immigrants. All first psychiatric hospitalizations of adults, 2001-2018, in the National Psychiatric Case Registry were used.

Benefiting From Digital Use: Prospective Association of Internet Use With Knowledge and Preventive Behaviors Related to Alzheimer Disease in the Israeli Survey of Aging.

Background: Previous work documented the beneficial association between internet use and improved cognition, functional capacity, and less cognitive decline among people in late adulthood. This work focused on potential mechanisms of such an association: knowledge on Alzheimer disease (AD) and preventive behaviors related to AD.

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine prospective associations of internet use and perceived computer skills with knowledge on AD and preventive behaviors related to AD.

Beliefs about medication as predictors of medication adherence in a prospective cohort study among persons with multiple sclerosis.

Background: Though adherence to disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) among persons with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) varies and is often below 80%, only few prospective studies on adherence examined predictors beyond demographic and clinical characteristics.

Objectives: Identify antecedents to adherence and persistence to DMT in a prospective design among PwMS.

Methods: PwMS (n = 186) were prospectively assessed at three time points: baseline, 6 (Time 1) and 12 months later (Time 2).

Compensatory Health Beliefs on Breastfeeding Varying by Breastfeeding Status; A Scale Development.

Aims: To examine whether compensatory health beliefs (CHB) on breastfeeding vary as a function of breastfeeding status among mothers of infants.

Methods: Participants included 773 women aged 18 and older (M = 32.8) who gave birth in the last two years; 445 were breastfeeding exclusively, 165 were breastfeeding partially, and 163 were not breastfeeding.

Better Ask Than Tell: Responses to mHealth Interrogative Reminders and Associations With Colorectal Cancer Screening Subsequent Uptake in a Prospective Cohort Intervention.

Background: Text message (short message service, SMS) interrogative reminders were adopted in population screening for the early detection of colorectal cancer (CRC).

Objective: This study aims to examine responses to text message (SMS) reminders and associate responses with senders' characteristics, message type (interrogative/declarative), and subsequent screening uptake.

Methods: We conducted a prospective cohort intervention.

Infertility Centrality in the Woman's Identity and Goal Adjustment Predict Psychological Adjustment Among Women in Ongoing Fertility Treatments.

Purpose: Some of the women that go through repeated fertility treatments will not adjust well to the treatments and will experience increased distress. The present study examined how centrality of the fertility problem in the woman's identity and dispositional goal adjustment (disengagement and reengagement) are associated with the woman's psychological adjustment. These issues are examined in a context of a pro-natal society (Israel) where parenthood is a major life goal.

With Some Help From My Network: Supplementing eHealth Literacy With Social Ties.

Background: eHealth literacy is defined as the ability to seek, find, understand, and appraise health information from electronic sources and apply knowledge gained to addressing or solving a health problem. Previous research has shown high reliance on both online and face-to-face interpersonal sources when sharing and receiving health information.

Objective: In this paper, we examine these interpersonal sources and their interplay with respondents' eHealth literacy and perceived health outcomes.

Perceived and Performed eHealth Literacy: Survey and Simulated Performance Test.

Background: Electronic health (eHealth) literacy of consumers is essential in order to improve information and communication technology (ICT) use for health purposes by ordinary citizens. However, performed eHealth literacy is seldom studied. Therefore, the present study assessed perceived and performed eHealth literacy using the recent conceptualization of health literacy skills.