Association Between Health Literacy, Electronic Health Literacy, Disease-Specific Knowledge, and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Adults With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Cross-Sectional Study

Michael Stellefson   ¹ , PhD, MCHES ;   Samantha R Paige   ² , PhD, MPH ;   Julia M Alber   ³ , PhD, MPH ;   Beth H Chaney   ¹ , PhD, MCHES ;   Don Chaney   ¹ , PhD, MCHES ;   Avery Apperson   ¹ , BS ;   Arjun Mohan   ⁴ , MD

¹ Department of Health Education and Promotion, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States

² STEM Translational Communication Center, College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States

³ Department of Kinesiology and Public Health, College of Science & Mathematics, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States

⁴ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, United States