The Gap Between Self-Rated Health Information Literacy and Internet Health Information-Seeking Ability for Patients With Chronic Diseases in Rural Communities: Cross-sectional Study

Zhuoxin Wang   ^{1 *} , MSc ;   Yanyan Fan   ^{1 *} , MSc ;   Hekai Lv   ^{2, 3 *} , MSc ;   Shanshan Deng   ^{1 *} , MSc ;   Hui Xie   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Li Zhang   ^{1 *} , MSc ;   Aijing Luo   ^{4, 5 *} , PhD ;   Fuzhi Wang   ^{2, 3 *} , PhD

¹ School of Nursing, Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, China

² School of Health Management, Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, China

³ Innovation Team of Health Information Management and Application Research (BYKC201913), Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, China

⁴ Key Laboratory of Medical Information Research (Central South University), College of Hunan Province, Changsha, China

⁵ The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

*all authors contributed equally