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Table 2 Digital Health Literacy (DHL) amongst health and non-health students

From: Differences in digital health literacy and future anxiety between health care and other university students in England during the COVID-19 pandemic

DHL scale

Health care students

Mean [CI]

Non-health care students

Mean [CIs]

t

Lower/Upper CIs

Searching for information

2.98 [2.90,3.08]

2.92 [2.85,3.00]

1.01

−0.17,0.05

Adding self-generated content online

2.91 [2.83,3.01]

2.84 [2.76,2.91]

1.23

−0.19, 0.04

Evaluating reliability

2.80 [2.71,2.90]

2.75 [2.67,2.84]

0.81

−0.18,0.08

Determining relevance

2.95 [2.87,3.04]

2.93 [2.86,3.00]

0.40

−0.13, 0.89

  1. Note: All dfs = 479. * = p = 0.049