eHealth Literacy and Web-Based Health Information–Seeking Behaviors on COVID-19 in Japan: Internet-Based Mixed Methods Study

Seigo Mitsutake   ^{1, 2 *} , PT, PhD ;   Koichiro Oka   ³ , PhD ;   Orkan Okan   ⁴ , PhD ;   Kevin Dadaczynski   ^{5, 6} , MSc, PhD ;   Tatsuro Ishizaki   ⁷ , MPH, MD, PhD ;   Takeo Nakayama   ⁸ , MD, PhD ;   Yoshimitsu Takahashi   ^{8 *} , DrPH

¹ Human Care Research Team, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

² Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia

³ Faculty of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, Saitama, Japan

⁴ WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Literacy, Department of Health and Sport Sciences, TUM School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

⁵ Department of Health Science, Fulda University of Applied Science, Fulda, Germany

⁶ Center for Applied Health Science, Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Lueneburg, Germany

⁷ Human Care Research Team, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Itabashi-ku, Japan

⁸ Department of Health Informatics, Kyoto University School of Public Health, Kyoto, Japan

*these authors contributed equally