survey of e-health literacy among employees of state-owned banks in tehran during 2020

Background and objective: developing new information and communicationtechnologies has had a significant effect on all of science and knowledge area,including health science. due to the large number of electronic resourcesthat product health content, having health literacy for all of people in societyis necessary and useful. this study aimed to identity e-health literacy amongemployees of state-owned banks in tehran in spring and summer of 2020.materials and methods: this is descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study.statistical populations include 348 employees of 7 state-owned banks in tehranwho were selected using sample size formula of cochran and with a confidencelevel of 95%. electronic health literacy questionnaire used to collect data.the reliability and validity of the persian translation of e-health literacyquestionnaire has been reviewed by bazm et al .we also used mean, standardsubdivision, mann-whitney u, kruskal-wallis test and spss software (version21) to analysis them.results: findings show that e-health literacy of examined employees wasmore than average level and close to good place (30.61). level of knowledgeand cognition to health resources available on the internet by the averageof 4.07 was identified as the highest indicator and level of knowledge andcognition to way of searching and seeking health information resources in theinternet were identified as the lowest indicator effect to e-health literacy ofexamined employees. also findings show that there are significant differentbetween e-health literacy and some demographic characteristics like sex,degree, level of english language knowledge, and also level of computerknowledge among examined employees (p <0.05).conclusion: although the e-health literacy level of the examined community isin a good condition; but since the new health information and communicationtechnologies in the web, internet and social networks increasingly are going toexpanding, development of staff training knowledge and science with learninginformation retrieval and information behavior skills by them, caused toupgrade and improve of their e-health literacy knowledge and consequentlyincreasing their personal and social health will follow.