The Mediating Role of E-Health Literacy in the Relationship Between Coronavirus Awareness and Hope in the Covid-19

Abstract

This research aims to determine the mediating role of e-health literacy levels on the relationship between awareness of coronavirus precautions for Covid-19 and dispositional hope during the Covid-19 era. The current research is based on sequential explanatory design. The quantitative data in this research were collected online Google form, and the qualitative data were collected using the online interview technique. Participants from whom qualitative data were obtained were determined using the analog sampling method, one of the criterion sampling method. Participants from whom the quantitative data of the study were obtained were determined using the snowball sampling method, one of the purposeful sampling methods. As a result of testing the structural equation model, it has been determined that e-health literacy has a full mediating role between awareness of koronavirus and dispositional hope. In addition, in the study, it was observed that people who had Covid-19 increased their awareness of Covid-19 before and after the disease. It has been determined that people pay more attention to the precautions that should be taken for the transmission of the disease, especially after the disease. As a result, it can be said that the necessity of raising the awareness of individuals and giving priority to increasing the level of e-health literacy has emerged.