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eHealth Literacy / Digital Literacy (528) Demographics of Users, Social & Digital Divide (914) Medicine 2.0: Social Media, Open, Participatory, Collaborative Medicine (1911)

Published on in Vol 23, No 2 (2021): February

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/19134, first published .
Associations of Health Literacy, Social Media Use, and Self-Efficacy With Health Information–Seeking Intentions Among Social Media Users in China: Cross-sectional Survey

Associations of Health Literacy, Social Media Use, and Self-Efficacy With Health Information–Seeking Intentions Among Social Media Users in China: Cross-sectional Survey

Associations of Health Literacy, Social Media Use, and Self-Efficacy With Health Information–Seeking Intentions Among Social Media Users in China: Cross-sectional Survey

Authors of this article:

Zhaomeng Niu1 Author Orcid Image ;   Jessica Willoughby2 Author Orcid Image ;   Rongting Zhou3 Author Orcid Image
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