Enhancing digital health literacy in adolescents: evaluation of a co-designed educational app
Use of the co-designed educational resource misAdventures improved adolescents' digital health literacy and self-efficacy. Adolescents acknowledged they learnt through using the app and believed it would change the way they used online health information. A brief, self-directed digital educational resource can improve adolescents' ability and disposition to identify trustworthy health information online and on social media.
Authors
- Melissa Kang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9438-2518)
- S. Rachel Skinner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1970-9792)
- Melody Taba (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2954-1092)
- Patrina Caldwell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1124-6578)
- Karen M. Scott (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0721-6675)
- Annabelle Hawkins (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6149-5911)
Institutions
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- Children's Hospital at Westmead (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Public Health
- Published
- 2025-11-10
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-25022-y
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.82