en Nursing Orginal research <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="line-height:2;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><span sans-serif=""><span style="color:#2980b9;"><b><span new="" roman="" times="">Background:</span></b></span> <span new="" roman="" times="">Internet is an important source of online health information seeking. Middle-aged people, may face more health-threatening challenges if they lack seeking skills. Therefore, the evaluation of seeking skills on health information in middle-aged people needs to be further studied. </span></span></span><br> <span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><span sans-serif=""><span style="color:#2980b9;"><b><span new="" roman="" times="">Objectives: </span></b></span><span new="" roman="" times="">The purpose of this paper was to examine the Online Health Information-Seeking Skills (OHISS) and its related factors in middle-aged people.</span></span></span><br> <span new="" roman="" times=""><span style="color:#2980b9;"><b>Methods:</b></span><span style="color:black"> The cross-sectional study was conducted in 2021 on 430 middle-aged people in Kashan. Participants were selected with the cluster-random method. The data were collected using the Online Health Information Seeking Skills scale (OHISS), Social Participation, and Attitude General Technology questionnaires. The data were analyzed using t-test, Pearson&#39;s correlation, and liner regression using SPSS 16.0 statistical software.</span></span><br> <span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><span sans-serif=""><span style="color:#2980b9;"><b><span new="" roman="" times="">Results</span></b><b><span new="" roman="" times="">:</span></b></span><span new="" roman="" times=""><span style="color:#2980b9;"> </span>The mean (SD) age of participants was 47.69 (5.96) years old. The mean (SD) score of OHISS was 60.31 (20.86) on a scale of 0 to 100. Pearson correlation coefficients showed a positive correlation between OHISS with technology attitude (r= 0.45, p<0.001), and social participation (r= 0.17, p=0.003), and a negative correlation with age (r= -0.22, p<0.001). There was a significant <span style="background:white">relationship&nbsp;</span>between OHISS and education (t= -3.97, p<0.001), and was no significant <span style="background:white">relationship&nbsp;with</span> gender, marital status, occupational status, and income (p>0.05). Liner regarrison analysis </span><span lang="EN"><span new="" roman="" times="">shows that </span></span><span new="" roman="" times="">age, education, and technology attitude explained 30% of the OHISS variance in middle-aged people.</span></span></span><br> <span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><span sans-serif=""><span style="color:#2980b9;"><b><span new="" roman="" times="">Conclusion:</span></b></span> <span new="" roman="" times="">Internet skills are the key to achieving online health information. Assessing the level of skills and its predictors can be an intervention guide for health policymakers to prevent health inequalities and help maintain or improve the health of middle-aged people.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div> Health Information, Online, Skill, Middle-aged 1 8 http://nmcjournal.zums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-890-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Fatemeh Sadat Izadi- Avanji Fs.izadi@gmail.com 100319475328460014163 100319475328460014163 No Assistant Professor, Trauma Nursing Research Centre, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran Mahboobeh Kafaei -Atrian kafaeima@gmail.com 100319475328460014164 100319475328460014164 Yes Assistant Professor, Departments of Midwifery School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran Jalal Hashemi-Demneh jhashemi75@gmail.com 100319475328460014165 100319475328460014165 No MSc in Nursing, Departments of Medical-surgical Nursing, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran