IC-Health Project: Development of MOOCs to Promote Digital Health Literacy: First Results and Future Challenges
(2020) Sustainability — Vol. 12, n° 16, p. 6642 (2020)
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Perestelo-Perez, Lilisbeth 
González-González, Carina
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- Digital health literacy (DHL) is the ability to search, understand and evaluate informationfrom digital media and apply that knowledge to solve health problems. However, currently manycitizens have not developed these skills, and this compromises not only the self-management of theirhealth, but the possibility that health services are socially sustainable. The objective of this article wasto present the objectives, activities and results of the IC-Health project whose objective was to developa series of massive open online courses (MOOCs) to improve the DHL skills of European citizens.An exploratory report on DHL’s current evidence was developed. Furthermore, a survey, focus groupsand group interviews were conducted to determine DHL levels and the needs of population cohorts(children; adolescents; pregnant and lactating women; the elderly; and people affected by type 1and type 2 diabetes). A participation strategy with end users was designed through a communityof practice for the creation of MOOCs with the seven European countries that participated in theconsortium. Thirty-five MOOCs were developed in eight different languages and a descriptive and exploratory assessment of MOOCs was conducted with new participants. This first evaluationindicated that MOOCs can be an effective educational resource for DHL and a facilitator of shareddecision-making processes. The process of co-creation of MOOCs, the components, the challenges andthe opportunities identified in this European project could be useful for other developers of MOOCswho want to co-create interventions with beneficiaries in similar settings. Further longer-term actionsare still needed to improve citizens’ DHL.
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Perestelo-Perez, L., Torres-Castaño, A., González-González, C., Alvarez-Perez, Y., Toledo-Chavarri, A., Wagner, A., Perello, M., Van den Broucke, S., Díaz-Meneses, G., Piccini, B., Rivero-Santana, A., & Serrano-Aguilar, P. (2020). IC-Health Project: Development of MOOCs to Promote Digital Health Literacy: First Results and Future Challenges. Sustainability, 12(16), 6642. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12166642 (Original work published 2020)