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Health Literacy - Science topic
Health Literacy is a degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.
Questions related to Health Literacy
I'm doing a study on health literacy and medication adherence rates. Also want to find if there are other issues that cause medication non-compliance in participants of the study such as alcoholism. What would be the best analysis for this?
Dear all,
for my next research project, I am aiming to use the Health Promotion Life-Style Profile Scale to measure health literacy in patients. Since the project will be conducted in Germany, I will, however, need a German version of this scale. Since I do not want to go through the time- and money-consuming process of translating this instrument, I was wondering on whether a German version of this scale already existed? So far, my recherche in this regard have been unproductive, but if anyone knows of a translated version, I would appreciate the hint very much.
Thank you, kind regards,
Paul Weyh
P.S.: If you do not know the questionnaire, it can be obtained from here:
Hello, I'm a pary
My field of study is PhD in Library and Medical Information
I want to choose a topic for my dissertation that is related to health literacy. Can you help me? Or introduce me to the faculties that have this field in the Phd program.
Thanks alot
I am seeking a sexual and/or reproductive health literacy tool validated on (sexual and/or racial) minority populations.
Thank you in advance for any guidance you can offer!
Note: Apologies for any redundancies - joy of an anonymous survey and snowball sampling. As a researcher yourself, I am sure you understand the critical importance of both sample size and, in this case, global diversity. Thus, I would be indebted indeed if, in particular, you could help me out by a. responding to the questions if you have not already done so and as importantly b. sending the request below to your email and other networks. I've received fairly good diversity ... but I am hoping for more. This is only 10 questions and is only - as I promise - taking people between 3 - 4 minutes to respond. Interesting findings are indeed beginning to emerge. Thank you!!!
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Dear friend ....
I am hoping to take a quick snapshot of health literacy around the world - and I need your help to accomplish this task.
Below is a link to 10 very short and easy-to-answer questions - a very short survey - on SurveyMonkey. Responding shouldn't take more than a few minutes (3-4 on average) of your time but in the aggregate I believe will produce an actionable and meaningful understanding.
These questions are intended for people/organizations around the world that are actively working on health literacy issues in communities or clinics or hospitals or states and nations and/or actively conducting health literacy research and/or projects with people in any context.
I will be in your debt if you could help me by doing just two things that should not take up your time.
1. Respond to the questions - anonymously - yourself.
2. Share this email and the link with your entire network of health literacy professionals.
Here is the link:
If you have any questions or concerns about this effort, please contact me directly.
Best wishes as always,
Andrew Pleasant, Ph.D.
I will be conducting a study focusing on the topic of that focuses on measuring the Health literacy level among heart failure patient in my country (Iraq). Unfortunately, I didn't find a tool that can measure heart failure patients Health literacy. therefore, I'm seeking your help and support to identify a tool that measure health literacy for patients with heart failure. Your support & guidance are greatly appreciated.
Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ) was developed by and copyrighted to Deakin University. But I cannot find the complete tool that has all the HLQ scales and HLQ items.
Mental Health Literacy (MHL) has been developed in many countries ending as a item asked in national state ruled questionaries (A. Jorm or B. Pescosolido), but I have not been able to see anything like that in Europe, something in Portugal (Loureiro in Coimbra), but nothing else.
Is it any reasarch right now in development in Europe about MHL in general or specifically in Spain? Does any one has any clue?
I am doing research on health literacy and I am looking for a patient related health literacy that is not related to functional literacy.
I am looking for the mental health literacy survey that as 2 vignettes (Ram and Meena) by Michelle Kermode. Can anyone help please.
Does anyone knows studies regarding the effects of game-based approaches like serious games or gamification to improve or foster (digital) health literacy?
In my study I´d like to find out the health literacy among the population in my home town concerning chronic back pain. With the lessons learned I´d like to create treatment concepts for the different age groups.
Dear all,
for my next research project, I am aiming to use the Health Promotion Life-Style Profile Scale to measure health literacy in patients. Since the project will be conducted in Germany, I will, however, need a German version of this scale. Since I do not want to go through the time- and money-consuming process of translating this instrument, I was wondering on whether a German version of this scale already existed? So far, my recherche in this regard have been unproductive, but if anyone knows of a translated version, I would appreciate the hint very much.
Thank you, kind regards,
Paul Weyh
P.S.: If you do not know the questionnaire, it can be obtained from here:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwimzq-akZPsAhX_DmMBHU2jBbYQFjAEegQIAxAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fijwhr.net%2Fpdf%2Fpdf_IJWHR_191_supp.pdf&usg=AOvVaw1dG76dGspcWcs0URF8SOZ3
Hi there, I am looking for questionnaires measuring mental health literacy in teachers and educators. does anyone know any studies in this area?
Hello
I am interested in mental health literacy research with a CaLD community in Australia. I am seeking collaborator or guide/supervisor for this project.
I would love to hear from experienced academic interested in this topic.
Thank you in advance.
Regards
Bharat
It seems evident that the SARS-CoV 2 pandemic is caused by the great transmission capacity of the virus (Ro = 3 (2.4-3.8) by droplets (Pflügger) by the survival capacity on the different inanimate surfaces and by the transmission of the asymptomatic.
Its incidence has reached such an extreme in each country that it is having great sanitary significance (collapse of the Health Systems and specifically of the ICUs) and, socially, due to the mortality associated with the disease of COVID 19. To the point that most of the Governments They are recommending quarantines and alarm states to achieve the confinement and isolation of individuals, families and the population. What will lead to great socioeconomic consequences with serious consequences and suffering for the most vulnerable such as the elderly and chronic
I am currently doing a systematic review of health education programmes among music students in higher education (i.e. conservatoire students), but the way in which I define such a programme is essential to what papers I include.
Health education initiatives were eligible if they represented stand-alone interventions or were part of wider health promotion programmes. Health education programmes were defined according to WHO (1998) and had to be any planned activity or set of activities aimed at increasing health literacy and developing life skills conducing to health (e.g. decision making, problem solving, critical thinking, interpersonal skills, stress management, coping with emotions). The content of such programmes could comprise counseling, teaching, training or other educational processes such as guided group discussions or behavioural modification strategies (Zhu, Ho, & Wong, 2013). Such programmes could be part of or separate from the formal curriculum, yet taking place in a formal education music institution (college, high-school, conservatoire or university, not clinics) incorporating any relevant health-related content (focusing on psychological and/or physical issues), multi-component or formed of a single session, of any frequency and/or length and provided via any delivery method (i.e. face-to-face, via telephone or internet). Only studies focusing on universal preventative interventions were included (i.e. ‘a measure that is desirable for everybody in the eligible population’ [Mrazek & Haggerty, 1994]).
Now, according to this definition, health education (unlike health promotion) should be aimed primarily at outcomes such as increasing knowledge and/or awareness, changing attitudes, beliefs, perceived responsibility, self-efficacy, as well as training relevant skills/abilities such as critical thinking, decision-making or problem-solving. It should not necessarily or on its own be aimed, at changing actual health-related outcomes such as reducing risk of injury or lowering depression/anxiety - for such outcomes, we are talking about health promotion (which incorporates health education but goes beyond it, also encompassing changing the broader environment and ensuring relevant services are in place). However, many authors use health promotion when they only mean health education.
I have two questions:
1. Where should I draw the line given that using such a broad definition for health education programmes (aimed at developing health literacy and life skills) means I need to include both evaluations of formal health courses (that come in the traditional format of a series of lectures and seminars) and evaluations of interventions involving group discussions, more applied sessions and more focused training of specific skills, albeit with music students in a higher education institution? They both fit into the WHO definition!
2. Given that so many authors use health promotion and health education interchangeably and that only one evaluation of a health education programme looked at knowledge, attitudes and beliefs while all the others looked at health-related outcomes (although all were described as health courses), can I include all these outcomes as part of my systematic review? After all, I am looking at the effectiveness of health education programmes with regards to any outcomes! (health literacy and attitude change on one hand, and changes in actual health outcomes on the other hand)
Many thanks! I am really curious to read your views on the above!
We are in an environment where health-related news is shared unlimitedly in the media and social media. It is important to interpret health related information and news correctly. Health literacy is of great importance at this point.
Health literacy is of concern to everyone involved in health promotion and protection, disease prevention and early screening, health care and maintenance, and policy making. Health literacy skills are needed for dialogue and discussion, reading health information, interpreting charts, making decisions about participating in research studies, using medical tools for personal or familial health carecalculating timing or dosage of medicine, or voting on health or environmental issues.
As I am conducting research on health literacy of gynecological cancer I couldnt find such tool? I have the above mentioned question in my mind. Please help me.
The outbreak of nCoV could become a tragedy for humankind in many countries. People with better health literacy have a better ability to manage their health. Therefore, the governments and the healthcare system should work together with other sectors at different levels to develop effective strategies and programs to manage the infection.
Need more experts' ideas.
I am looking to find out if support workers health literacy has a positive or negative effect on their charges when they are being supported at home, what the carers think their level of health literacy is and how this relates to interpersonal and integrated relationships within the wider medical support network for the learning disabled.
Hello everybody: I would like you ask.
Is there any valid and standard tool to measure kidney disease health literacy among patients? thank you for you :-)
Translating new terms into another language can be a challenge for specialists. The more complex the concept, the more difficult the process can be. Using the English term as a neologism may sometimes be a convenient solution, but some languages are not very open to accommodating foreign words.
Currently I'm struggling with a couple of terms in the area of health education and health promotion (i.e., health literacy, empowerment).
I would like to invite you to share your experience with translating medical terms from English into other languages. Do you follow a certain path or go through particular steps to make sure the outcome is of best quality? I hope your insights will be helpful.
Here is my situation: I have used the standardized Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ) (a tool comprising 9 scales) to look at musicians' health literacy for the first time. However, the HLQ has never been validated on musicians. After having collected 479 responses from musicians, I cleaned the data and ran a CFA (using AMOS). The model was unfit, so I ran an EFA (in SPSS) which suggested I may have about 4 factors (instead of 9) with one of them having a Cronbach's alpha of less than .7. I then ran a CFA again, but the CFA doesn't fit with the EFA at all - what shall I do to test construct validity?
For the EFA, I used Eigenvalue > 1 & parallel analysis; conducted an orthogonal rotation (varimax); and supressed small coefficients of below .4.
Many, MANY thanks!
Low Health Literacy is well known as a risk factor for morbidity and mortality. It costs every healthcare system.
The EU HLS consortium conducted the survey in 8 countries.
In Asia, we conducted survey in several countries, and more are conducting.
If you like to take HL as a risk for your analysis. We could contribute to this important aspect.
Tuyen V Duong, Vice president of AHLA
Sørensen, K., Pelikan, J. M., Röthlin, F., Ganahl, K., Slonska, Z., Doyle, G., Fullam, J., Kondilis, B., Agrafiotis, D., Uiters, E., Falcon, M., Mensing, M., Tchamov, K., Broucke, S. v. d., & Brand, H. (2015). Health literacy in Europe: comparative results of the European health literacy survey (HLS-EU). European Journal of Public Health, 25(6), 1053-1058. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckv043
Duong, T. V., Aringazina, A., Baisunova, G., Nurjanah, Pham, T. V., Pham, K. M., Truong, T. Q., Nguyen, K. T., Oo, W. M., Mohamad, E., Su, T. T., Huang, H.-L., Sørensen, K., Pelikan, J. M., Van den Broucke, S., & Chang, P. W. (2017). Measuring health literacy in Asia: Validation of the HLS-EU-Q47 survey tool in six Asian countries. Journal of Epidemiology, 27(2), 80-86. doi:http://doi.org/10.1016/j.je.2016.09.005
Nakayama, K., Osaka, W., Togari, T., Ishikawa, H., Yonekura, Y., Sekido, A., & Matsumoto, M. (2015). Comprehensive health literacy in Japan is lower than in Europe: a validated Japanese-language assessment of health literacy. BMC Public Health, 15(1), 505. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-1835-x
I want to use one questionnaire to measure health literacy in different countries. In order to reduce the measurement variance in international comparison, a metric invariance would be the aim.
specially comprehensive and critical HL
How can doctors improve the health literacy in developing countries like Angola?
Should be doctors?
Who can do this hard work?
I am doing research on oral health literacy. I have to conduct interview with experts and Adult Population to Development, Psychometric Instrument . So I am looking for some effective question that can be asked.
As a P.T., focused and interested on orthopedics (such as, back, knee, shoulder, etc., pain and dysfunctions), my main concern is: how cognition and the capacity to search and obtain information, and convert it to knowledge, can affect our patients pain and rehabilitation, specially in low income areas?
Thinking about focusing on (regarding future researches):
- Health literacy
- Metacognition
- Information/knowledge sharing
- Group therapy intervention/prevention
Are those topics of interest? If "yes", which groups and researchers should i dig deeper to get the foundations?
Any suggestions are more than welcome
Is anyone knowledgeable and experienced in using the Delphi Method willing to collaborate on applying it to setting guidelines regarding musicians health literacy? I'd be most grateful to hear from you! Please see below (we will start with a series of workshops for now):
What should musicians’ health education sound like? The floor is yours!
Workshops funded by Realab and the IMR
Wednesday, 19 September OR Monday, 24 September 2018 | 11.30 AM; Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), Manchester, UK
Tuesday, 25 September OR Saturday, 29 September 2018 | 11.30 AM
Institute of Musical Research, Senate House, London, UK
The physical and psychological demands of the training and practice that musicians must achieve to perform to a high standard can produce deleterious effects on their health and wellbeing. However, music conservatoires still endorse practices that are informed by tradition more than evidence, while health literacy and critical thinking are still not embedded in music students’ core training. Finally, there are no guidelines or regulations regarding what conservatoires should provide in terms of health education.
We want to address that AND we need your help!
We invite psychologists (both researchers and practitioners, from any specialism and not restricted to those who work with musicians) to join us in this discussion! We have prepared comprehensive lists of topics and we shall discuss their relevance and priority in small groups. Additionally, we will brainstorm ideas about what other topics might be needed as part of the conservatoires’ curricula.
Places are free, but limited. While we prioritise psychologists (due to the nature of our task and topic focus), we also welcome:
- Health professionals working with musicians
- Health educators
- Philosophers (yes, yes! We’d also like to discuss cognitive biases and logical fallacies!)
- Cognitive scientists
- Specialists in music education
- PhD students in any of the topics above
Please note the same workshop will be held four times. Please choose only one and register your interest here: https://mmu.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/musicians-health-education-workshop-sept-2018
For any queries, please contact the organisers: Raluca Matei, AHRC-funded PhD student in music psychology: raluca.matei@student.rncm.ac.uk | +44 757 061 2760 OR
Keith Phillips, PhD student in music psychology: keith.phillips@student.rncm.ac.uk
What should musicians’ health education sound like? The floor is yours!
Workshops funded by Realab and the IMR
Wednesday, 19 September OR Monday, 24 September 2018 | 11.30 AM, Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), Manchester, UK
Tuesday, 25 September OR Saturday, 29 September 2018 | 11.30 AM
Institute of Musical Research, Senate House, London, UK
The physical and psychological demands of the training and practice that musicians must achieve to perform to a high standard can produce deleterious effects on their health and wellbeing. However, music conservatoires still endorse practices that are informed by tradition more than evidence, while health literacy and critical thinking are still not embedded in music students’ core training. Finally, there are no guidelines or regulations regarding what conservatoires should provide in terms of health education.
We want to address that AND we need your help!
We invite psychologists (both researchers and practitioners, from any specialism and not restricted to those who work with musicians) to join us in this discussion! We have prepared comprehensive lists of topics and we shall discuss their relevance and priority in small groups. Additionally, we will brainstorm ideas about what other topics might be needed as part of the conservatoires’ curricula.
Places are free, but limited. While we prioritise psychologists (due to the nature of our task and topic focus), we also welcome:
- Health professionals working with musicians
- Philosophers (yes, yes! We’d also like to discuss cognitive biases and logical fallacies!)
- Cognitive scientists
- Specialists in music education
- PhD students in any of the topics above
Please note the same workshop will be held four times. Please choose only one and register your interest here: https://mmu.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/musicians-health-education-workshop-sept-2018
For any queries, please contact the organisers: Raluca Matei, AHRC-funded PhD student in music psychology: raluca.matei@student.rncm.ac.uk | +44 757 061 2760 OR
Keith Phillips, PhD student in music psychology: keith.phillips@student.rncm.ac.uk
Our group is working on projects to assess and spread mental health literacy in Brazil and we need reliable scales or questionnaires to properly gauge the depth of knowledge on mental health in the general population and especially in school-age children and adolescents.
I am keen in doing a research on mental health literacy among undergraduate students in Malaysia. May I know how can I get the inventory tool regarding this? Thank you.
When looking at the moderation of health literacy in the relation between training&education (as part of management by vitality) and sustainable employability, I'm looking for a suitable questionnaire. It is not a purely medical point of view.
I'm looking for people with an interest in developing interventions aimed at increasing health literacy that would be part of the higher education curriculum.
WHO and the European Union have begun to carry out studies on health literacy in the population. The observations of health literacy in Health and Health Education would be comparable or we are talking about different concepts and / or terms because they value different aspects and components.
In my opinion, one thing is literacy and another Education. This involves empowering individuals to self-manage their health and make decisions and attitudes based on their knowledge about health and disease.
Several articles have found associations between poorer health literacy and worse self-perceived health but they not present a plausible explanation for the existence of this phenomenon.
Could you please help me explain these scientific findings?
Thank you
I'm currently brainstorming to find a research topic on mental health literacy, focusing on media usage. I'm looking for a good questionnaire on such issue. Some questionnaires I have come across are focusing more on case vignette and coping mechanism instead of media use.
I have also seen some of health literacy questionnaire like HLSEUQ. It seems that they at least have some mention in media usage. But I'm not sure if those are useful in determining mental health literacy or psychiatry patient caregiver health literacy.
Does anyone have any suggestion about a suitable mental health literacy questionnaire or whether or not I can use health literacy questionnaire in general for psychiatry patient caregiver?
How do we promote health literacy? Are we too presciptive? Are we too paternalistic? How do we get the message right?
Dear all,
I'm trying to scope the variety of different types of literacies included in scholarly discussions. Below, I have listed the ones I have found so far. If any of You have some additional examples I could add to the list (reference would be nice) I'd delighted to hear about those.
Thanks in adavance,
Pekka
Media literacy, computer literacy, critical literacy, information literacy, game literacy, social literacy, health literacy, physical literacy, emotional literacy, network analysis literacy, financial literacy, workplace literacy, functional literacy, visual literacy, digital literacy
tools to measure:
Cancer health literacy general
Cancer health literacy on sign symptoms
Cancer health literacy on access to treament
I am evaluating a mental health literacy program with college students and will use a two-group posttest-only randomized experiment to measure if there is an impact on knowledge, stigma and help-seeking intentions.I am trying to figure out what is my sample size and estimating power for a medium effect. I can't find any information on this issue. Gladly welcome your insight.
thanks
I have a strong interest in the field and include it in our curriculum. I have an interest in doing research in the field as well.
HI,
I am studying toward health literacy and is any instrument to measure mobile (app) health literacy.
Kind regards
Sarath
The degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic oral health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions that is the core of oral health literacy, would like to know how and through what modalities they are carried out around the globe, please share you insights.
I would like to see if this test would be applicable for my capstone project. Is this test affordable? I'm a student and have no money :)
What are the best evidence-based interventions to support population health literacy? Which interventions are most effective on a population level, and what is known about their cost effectiveness?
Dear all, I´m searching especially for papers on questionnaires measuring empowerment as well as preferences, attitudes, acceptance, health literacy via e-learning (users´perspective, e.g. medical students)...How can self-empowerment be operationalized? I´m looking forward for your suggestions!
I´m searching for research on attitudes towards e-mental health resp. online self-help services (including acceptance, preferences, adherence, engagement, expectancies, concerns, etc.) in the general population. I´m looking forward to your feedback - thank you!
I'm looking for an instrument to measure health literacy of students in primary and secondary education
Many literature said, low health literacy will affect their health behavior such as Health information seeking. Is there any possibility for those who has good health literacy will be less likely to seek information? because they might think that they have good enough knowledge and experiences.
Now, I'm working on health literacy project. I have to collect data from elderly people and it seems that most of them are low educated. It's difficult for them sometimes to express any word/ idea/ ... Therefore, I would like to know how to cope this problem. Thank you.
The underlying proposition in this study is that health related knowledge gained by an individual is likely to affect his/her health related behaviors. This study draws from a range of theoretical perspectives which emphasize the influence of information and knowledge upon the choices people make in their lives.
Can anyone share sources on nutritional food labeling education as a single intervention for addressing obesity (not overweight)in minority women?
Health Literacy is defined as the ability to read and unerstand basic medical
and health information. According to several sources more than one third of the population in North America has no health / medical literacy. The outcomes are estimated at more than 100 bilion USD for the health care sector with additional
negative cosequences like : innability to understand inform concern documents,
innability to access and use adequate and proper health/medical info on the net
etc. The next generation should aquire this through school teaching programes
- What you dear fellows think about ?
Have any measurements been developed regarding health literacy in the context of youth or young people?
I am looking for a comprehensive inventory of available (ideally free but comprehensive is a must) validated survey instruments in the health field. Ideally as broad as possible. These might include things like the SF-36, beck depression inventory, test of functional health literacy for adults, etc.
I am currently advising and working with the NHS National IAPT programme. In the past year I have reviewed many services. A frequent factor to emerge has been the less than necessary referrals to achieve the 15% access goal set by the NHS for CMHD. Given the high prevalence of these disorders why are we not overwhelmed by demand?
I have been looking at help seeking research and mental health literacy.
How could we develop such a tool? Please give suggestions and elaborate on how to get a health literacy measurement tool approved.
Looking for any comments and views on how health information seeking will affect health literacy, if it does so significantly, especially in the contexts of new media.
I have come across a lot of Survey instruments and wondering which one(s) will be most appropriate for persons with T2DM
I would like to have any comments and views from all researchers regarding to what extant the social media can improve health literacy especially among young peoples.
Is there any standard tool for that or we can develop our own?
I am looking for an instrument to use with renal transplant recipients to test their understanding of the transplant process and necessary long term follow up care (KDOQI Guidelines or European Guidelines for follow up care).
Looking for an instrument (brief) to measure critical health literacy among high school students. Not interested in basic/functional health literacy, such as "do you understand the instructions on your medication." Instead, seeking a way to measure communicative and critical health literacy. WHO definition of interest: "Health literacy represents the cognitive and social skills which determine the motivation and ability of individuals to gain access to, understand and use information in ways which promote and maintain good health" (Nutbeam, 1998).
In other words, prevention of cancers and HPV infection through increased participation rates in HPV immunizations as the result of a social media based health literacy campaign?
Looking for any measurement related to health literacy among youth and how social media influence the level of health literacy.
Traditional approaches have focused on improving communication by clinicians so that it can be better understood by patients with low health literacy. We are interested in specific approaches to improving health literacy especially is disadvantaged population groups.
We are going to verify the health promoting program and we are willing to use the concept of mind mapping as tool for pre-test and post-test. Do you know any cases where mind mapping was used as measurement tool? Our idea is to make a phenomena analysis (according to predefined keywords and relations) and quantify them into score. Would it be possible? What are your ideas, recommendations or suggestions?
I am looking for research related to how experienced users/patients' can contribute in educational programs for other patients, especially in mental health care. We are working on a training program for the user representatives ("expert patients") to prepare them for their effort in the program. So far, our experiences with this preparating course is very positive, but we are interested in more research on the topic, both quantitative and qualitative studies should be interesting.
Recently, I have been approached by a colleague who wishes to develop a 'health communication' programme. It's not a term that I have come across many times before. Given it's very broad remit - is it not health promotion/public health/community health (with health education added) by another name? Wikepedia gives a decent enough account of it - and I can see that there are some specifics - such as health literacy and use of media - but they are covered under the umbrella of health promotion/education too. Does anyone have a different spin on this?
Dean