Digital Health Information Use, Trust, and Language-Related Disparities in Health Literacy in South Tyrol, Italy: Cross-Sectional Survey Study

Dietmar Ausserhofer   ^{1 *} , PhD, RN ;   Verena Barbieri   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Stefano Lombardo   ² , PhD ;   Timon Gärtner   ² , PhD ;   Klaus Eisendle   ³ , MD, PhD, MBA, MSci ;   Giuliano Piccoliori   ¹ , MD ;   Adolf Engl   ¹ , MD ;   Christian Josef Wiedermann   ¹ , MD

¹ Institute of General Practice and Public Health, Claudiana—College of Health Professions, Bolzano-Bozen, Bolzano, Italy

² Provincial Institute for Statistics of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano - South Tyrol, Bolzano-Bozen, Bolzano, Italy

³ Directorate, Claudiana—College of Health Professions, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy

*these authors contributed equally