Published on in Vol 27 (2025)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/78343, first published .
Digital Health Literacy and Its Role in Awareness of and Access to Sexual Health Products and Services Among Displaced Youth in Uganda’s Informal Urban Settlements: Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study

Digital Health Literacy and Its Role in Awareness of and Access to Sexual Health Products and Services Among Displaced Youth in Uganda’s Informal Urban Settlements: Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study

Digital Health Literacy and Its Role in Awareness of and Access to Sexual Health Products and Services Among Displaced Youth in Uganda’s Informal Urban Settlements: Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study

Moses Okumu   1, 2 , MSW, PhD ;   Carmen Hellen Logie   3, 4 , MSW, PhD ;   Isaac Koomson   5 , PhD ;   Thabani Nyoni   6 , PhD ;   Joshua Muzei   7 , MBA ;   Bonita B Sharma   8 , MSW, PhD ;   Flora Cohen   1 , MSW, PhD ;   William Byansi   9 , MSW, PhD ;   Michelle G Thompson   10 , PhD ;   Joseph Cedrick Wabwire   11 , MA ;   Catherine Naluwende Nafula   12 , MPH ;   Robert Hakiza   13 , BS ;   Peter Kyambadde   14, 15 , MBChB, MPH ;   Liliane Cambraia Windsor   16 , MSW, PhD

1 School of Social Work, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States

2 School of Social Sciences, Uganda Christian University, Mukono, Uganda

3 Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

4 United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment, and Health (UNU-INWEH), Richmond Hill, ON, Canada

5 Centre for the Business and Economics of Health, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia

6 School of Social Work, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

7 Informatics Programs, School of Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States

8 Department of Social Work, College of Public Policy, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States

9 School of Social Work, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States

10 College of Health, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, United States

11 Department of Health and Kinesiology, College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States

12 AVSI Foundation, Arua, Uganda

13 YARID: Young African Refugees for Integral Development, Kampala, Uganda

14 AIDS Control Program, Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda

15 Most At Risk Populations Initiative, Kampala, Uganda

16 Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States

Corresponding Author:

  • Moses Okumu, MSW, PhD
  • School of Social Work
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • 1010 W. Nevada St
  • Urbana, IL 61801-3813
  • United States
  • Phone: 1 (217) 3332213
  • Email: okumu@illinois.edu