Assessment of Electronic Health Literacy Among Filipino Americans.

Health literacy requires skills of reading, understanding, and analyzing text, numbers, graphs, and diagrams to make well-informed decisions. The increase advancement in technologies has made health information accessible in electronic format. Individuals must apply health literacy in navigating through health information resources on the Internet. Filipino Americans originating from a diverse background are often underreported and underrepresented in health research. The study aim was to examine electronic health literacy among Filipino Americans using the Electronic Health Literacy Scale survey. The descriptive study recruited 103 participants. Overall Filipino Americans are electronic health literate, with a mean of 32.4 ( SD = 4.6). Females ( P = .017), those with graduate or professional degrees ( P = .004) and working in healthcare ( P = .040) tend to have higher electronic health literacy. The study provided valuable insight on electronic health literacy on a population that is underrepresented in research. The descriptive data gained from the study lays foundational work to help decrease health inequities experienced by Filipino Americans.

The Art of Dying: A Global Nursing Perspective.

The purpose of this paper is to explore how people from diverse backgrounds and places, who are severely ill, disabled, or facing death, use art to help themselves and others not only make sense of such experiences but live fully with loss and the limited time remaining. The humanbecoming paradigm is used to provide a language to talk about Western and non-Western experiences of life-threatening illness, disability and death, and art. The persons discussed in the paper suggest that age and place, although influences, are not particularly relevant, nor is severe illness, even those associated with significant failing capacities, because they cannot contain the human spirit or relationships.