Olga Maria Domanska

• Doctor of Medicine
• Vivantes Klinikum am Urban

Representative studies assessing behavior-oriented determinants for physically active lifestyles in the German adult population are lacking due to the absence of validated assessment instruments. Drawing on the physical activity-related health competence (PAHCO) model, the goal of the present study was to develop and evaluate a short version of PAH...

Introduction In Germany, a total of 92.2% of children between the age of 3 and school entry age attend daycare centres. Therefore, daycare centres are a suitable setting to promote physical activity among children. Yet, there is a lack of knowledge on the promotion of physical activity in daycare centres with regards to different structures and con...

Background Health literacy, defined as the knowledge, motivation, and competences to use health information to improve health and well-being, is associated with regular physical activity. However, there is limited evidence on whether health literacy is also related to the motivational readiness for physical activity in a general population. The aim...

Background The questionnaire “Measurement of Health Literacy Among Adolescents Questionnaire” (MOHLAA-Q) was developed and validated in a multi-stage process to measure generic health literacy among 14- to 17-year-olds. The MOHLAA-Q combines subjective and objective measurements, consisting of four scales. The instrument was applied to explore asso...

Background: Sedentary behaviour is increasingly perceived as a risk factor for the development of diseases and for increased mortality. In particular, increased time spent sitting in combination with low physical activity seems to have negative health consequences. Methods: In the nationwide cross-sectional study German Health Update (GEDA 2019/...

Background Health literacy enables people to cope efficiently with health threats, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. However, little is known about health literacy among adolescents in general and especially in the context of pandemics. This study aimed to explore pandemic-related health literacy among adolescents by addressing cognitive, behavioral,...

Zusammenfassung Im Projekt „Measurement of Health Literacy Among Adolescents“ (MOHLAA) wurde der Fragebogen MOHLAA-Q für 14- bis 17-Jährige in einem mehrstufigen Prozess entwickelt und validiert. Der MOHLAA-Q umfasst 29 Items und 4 Skalen, erfasst verschiedene Dimensionen von Gesundheitskompetenz und wurde in einer bundesweiten Online-Befragung bei...

Background: Health literacy enables people to cope efficiently with health threats, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. However, little is known about health literacy among adolescents in general and especially in the context of pandemics. This study aimed to explore pandemic-related health literacy among adolescents by addressing cognitive, behavioral,...

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Erschienen in: Impu!se für Gesundheitsförderung, Nr. 113, Quartal 4/2021, S. 9-10 Über die Gesundheitskompetenz von Jugendlichen liegen bislang nur wenige Studien vor. Im Projekt »Messung der Gesund- heitskompetenz von Jugendlichen« (MOHLAA) wurde ein deutschsprachiges Erhebungsinstrument zur Erfassung der Gesundheitskompetenz von Jugendlichen (d...

Zusammenfassung Hintergrund Für Deutschland fehlen Informationen zum Zusammenhang zwischen Gesundheitskompetenz und Gesundheitsverhalten Jugendlicher, obwohl in der Stärkung von Gesundheitskompetenz besonders im Jugendalter ein vielversprechender Ansatz zur Förderung des Gesundheitsverhaltens gesehen wird. Ziel der Arbeit Es wird – unter Berücksi...

Background For developing effective interventions to promote health literacy in adolescence, differentiated data on the distribution of health literacy levels is required, but still lacking for this age group in many countries. The study aims to measure the distribution of generic health literacy (GHL) among adolescents addressing cognitive, behavi...

Health-promoting behaviours are important at any age to prevent diseases and to promote well-being. Using data from GEDA 2019/2020-EHIS, a Germany-wide, representative survey, this article describes how often the adult population in Germany reports certain types of health-promoting behaviour in their everyday lives. The behaviours considered are no...

Health-promoting behaviours are important at any age to prevent diseases and to promote well-being. Using data from GEDA 2019/2020-EHIS, a Germany-wide, representative survey, this article describes how often the adult population in Germany reports certain types of health-promoting behaviour in their everyday lives. The behaviours considered are no...

The main strategy for combatting SARS-CoV-2 infections in 2020 consisted of behavioural regulations including contact reduction, maintaining distance, hand hygiene, and mask wearing. COVID-19-related risk perception and knowledge may influence protective behaviour, and education could be an important determinant. The current study investigated diff...

Profound data on adolescent health literacy are needed as a requirement for the development of health literacy promoting interventions. This paper aims to study the level of generic health literacy among adolescents and to explore associations between health literacy and sociodemographic (age, sex, family affluence, migration background), social (s...

Die Förderung der Gesundheitskompetenz in jungen Jahren kann sich über die gesamte Lebensspanne hinweg positiv auf die Gesundheit auswirken. Ein Messinstrument zur Erfassung der allgemeinen Gesundheitskompetenz von Jugendlichen fehlte bislang. Der folgende Beitrag beschreibt die Entwicklung eines altersspezifischen, validierten Befragungsinstrument...

Background: Until now, children younger than age 13 years have received little attention in research on health literacy. Although some tools assess children's health literacy, no validated tool is available that assesses self-reported health literacy in a systematic and comparable way. The European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q) i...

Background: Promoting health literacy in early life is regarded as an important means of sustaining health literacy and health over the life course. However, little evidence is available on children's health literacy, partly due to a scarcity of suitable measurement tools. Although there are 18 tools to measure specific items of health literacy fo...

Health literacy is a promising approach to promoting health and preventing disease among children and adolescents. Promoting health literacy in early stages of life could contribute to reducing health inequalities. However, it is difficult to identify concrete needs for action as there are few age-adjusted measures to assess generic health literacy...

The promotion of health literacy at a young age can protect, maintain and improve health across the life course. Yet to date, a sound data basis on adolescent health literacy as a requirement for the development of strategies to promote health literacy has not been given. This paper presents a study protocol for the online survey “Health Literacy A...

Background Health literacy (HL), defined as the ability to access, understand, appraise and apply health information, offers a promising approach to reduce the development of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and to improve the management of CVD in populations. Design We used data from nationwide cross-sectional German Health Update (GEDA2014/2015-EHI...

Background In Germany, there are no measurement tools to assess the general health literacy of adolescents. The aim of the study “Measurement of Health Literacy Among Adolescents” (MOHLAA) is to develop such a tool for use among adolescents aged 14–17. The German version of the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q47-GER) served a...

Following publication of this article [1], it has come to our attention that one of the authors has had their name misspelt. “Ullich Bauer” should actually be read as “Ullrich Bauer”. The original article has been updated to reflect this.

Background Children and young people constitute a core target group for health literacy research and practice: during childhood and youth, fundamental cognitive, physical and emotional development processes take place and health-related behaviours and skills develop. However, there is limited knowledge and academic consensus regarding the abilities...

Hintergrund und Fragestellung: Unter Gesundheitskompetenz (GK) werden kognitive und soziale Fähigkeiten verstanden, um Gesundheitsinformationen zu finden, zu verstehen, zu bewerten und für gesundheitsbezogene Entscheidungen anzuwenden. Aus der bisherigen Forschung geht hervor, dass GK mit der Inanspruchnahme präventiver Gesundheitsleistungen assoz...

Der Beitrag liefert anhand der Daten aus zwei Erhebungswellen der KiGGS-Studie für Deutschland Trends zur Inanspruchnahme ambulant-ärztlicher Leistungen im Kindes- und Jugendalter (Bevölkerungsanteile, Odds Ratios). 2009-2012 nahmen 91,9 % (95 %-KI: 91,1 % - 92,7 %) der Kinder und Jugendlichen mindestens ein Mal innerhalb eines Jahres ambulant-ärz...

This article provides information on trends in the utilization of outpatient medical care in childhood and adolescence in Germany on the basis of data from two waves of the KiGGS study (prevalences and odds ratios). In the period 2009-2012, 91.9 % (95 % CI 91.1-92.7 %) of children and adolescents used outpatient medical services at least once a yea...

Zeigen sich im Kindes- und Jugendalter in den letzten 10 Jahren Trends in der Inanspruchnahme kinderärztlicher und allgemeinmedizinischer Leistungen? Datenbasis bildet der Kinder- und Jugendgesundheitssurvey des Robert Koch-Instituts. Die KiGGS-Basiserhebung wurde 2003 – 2006 (n = 17.641; Response: 66,6%) und die erste Folgebefragung 2009 – 2012 (K...

Background While there are numerous studies analysing mental health of lone mothers, there are very few equivalent studies for lone fathers. As it is assumed that lone fathers have a different social profile than lone mothers, it is to expect that there are sex differences according to the risk factors in depression prevalence. Data and Methods We...

The article provides representative benchmarks and trends for the use of medical and therapeutic services in Germany on the basis of the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Adults (DEGS1) and the German National Health Interview and Examination Survey 1998 (GNHIES98) from the years 2008-2011 and 1997/98, respectively. DEGS1 shows tha...

Background Safety culture has been identified as having a major impact on how safety is managed in healthcare. However, it has not received much attention in general practices. Hence, no instrument yet exists to assess safety climate—the measurable artefact of safety culture—in this setting. This study aims to evaluate psychometric properties of a...

Background Safety climate comprises shared perceptions of safety issues and is a visible feature of a safety culture. Usually self-report questionnaires are used to assess a safety climate. The aim of this project was to develop the first German questionnaire for the assessment of the patient safety climate in general practices. Methods The develo...

Safety climate comprises shared perceptions of safety issues and is a visible feature of a safety culture. Usually self-report questionnaires are used to assess a safety climate. The aim of this project was to develop the first German questionnaire for the assessment of the patient safety climate in general practices. The development of the instrum...