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Methods

This review study follows the PRISMA guidelines. A search was conducted in PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science databases to find articles in English published from the time of the COVID-19 outbreak to August 3, 2021 using the keywords “Electronic Health Literacy”,“COVID-19”,“Mental State”. The studies that investigated the impact of e-health literacy on the mental state of people during the pandemic were included. All short articles, letters to the editor, conference abstracts, observational studies, review articles, as well as articles whose full texts were not accessible and were written in a language other than English, were excluded from the study. Retrieved studies were entered into EndNote software based on the search strategy. The titles, abstracts, and full texts of the articles were independently examined by researchers using the STROBE checklist. Articles that were confirmed based on at least 20 of the 22 items in the checklist were included in the study. After selecting studies, data were collected using a data extraction form which included: First author’s name, year of study, country of study, design of study, purpose of study, number of samples/sampling method, instruments, and main conclusion.

Results

The initial search yielded 116 articles. After examining the articles based on the criteria, finally 6 articles were left for review in the present study. The age of participants in most of the selected articles was in a range of 18-85 years. Their study population were health care workers (n= 2), outpatients (n= 1), elderly (n= 1) and the general public (n= 1). The countries where studies were conducted were England (n= 1), Croatia (n= 1 …