While past research suggests mHealth apps help cultivate users’ health information literacy (HIL), factors contributing to their HIL development have not been systematically studied. Applying digital wellbeing framework, an empirical investigation using a large-scale survey dataset was conducted. From regression analysis and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), two findings were yielded. First, six influential factors, including person-specific factors (i.e., gender, annual family income, Internet experience), device-specific factors (i.e., screen sizes of mobile phones), and context-specific factors (i.e., use frequency and perceived quality of mHealth apps), were identified. Second, gender, annual family income, internet experience, screen size of mobile phones, use frequency and perceived quality of mHealth apps had synergistic effects on HIL. By introducing fsQCA to library and information science community, the study not only extends literature by teasing out the combinations of different categories of factors contributing to HIL but informs health professionals and mHealth app developers.

虽然过去的研究表明移动医疗应用有助于培养用户的健康信息素养 (HIL)，但尚未系统地研究促成其 HIL 发展的因素。应用数字福祉框架，使用大规模调查数据集进行了实证调查。从回归分析和模糊集定性比较分析 (fsQCA) 中，得出了两个发现。首先，六个影响因素，包括个人因素（即性别、家庭年收入、互联网经验）、设备特定因素（即手机屏幕大小）和情境特定因素（即使用频率和感知移动健康应用程序的质量），被确定。二、性别、家庭年收入、上网经验、手机屏幕大小、移动医疗应用的使用频率和感知质量对 HIL 具有协同效应。通过将 fsQCA 引入图书馆和信息科学界，该研究不仅通过梳理导致 HIL 的不同类别因素的组合来扩展文献，而且还为健康专业人士和移动健康应用程序开发人员提供了信息。