METHODS. We recruited consecutive English speaking adult patients from a major public (Site 1), major private (Site 2) and regional hospital (Site 3) in Victoria, Australia. Prior to discharge, a Registered Nurse conducted a semi-structured interview using the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ)...
Health literacy and cultural responsiveness may affect how Africans from refugee backgrounds from different health care systems and diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds navigate, access/use, and engage with health care systems and services in Australia. This study investigates how PHC services respon...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the measurement properties of the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ) in a cohort of older adults who presented to a hospital emergency department (ED) after a fall. Older adults who presented to an ED after a fall had their health literacy assessed ...
Two health literacy dimensions were selected from the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ™): i) Understanding health information well enough to know what to do (5 items), and ii) Ability to actively engage with health care providers (5 items). Response options ranged from 1 (very difficult)...
Health literacy was measured using the HLS-SF12. Personal characteristics were also collected. We analyzed data using confirmatory factor analysis, internal consistency analysis, and regression analysis. Results: The questionnaire demonstrated a good construct validity with satisfactory goodness-of-fit ...
“Test of Functional Health Literacy in Dentistry” OR “Oral Health Literacy Instrument” OR “Oral Health Literacy Assessment” OR “Comprehensive Measure of Oral Health Knowledge” OR “Oral Health Literacy Adults Questionnaire”) OR (TS = (“patient medical knowledge” OR “patient ...
Low health literacy often has an association with poor health outcomes such as low levels of self-efficacy, increased mortality, poor health status and reduced quality of life (QOL). The aim of the study was to quantitatively evaluate the relationship between health literacy (HL) and QOL based...
Measurement of mental health literacy Symptom profile recognition. Four symptom profiles were presented in the questionnaire, and participants were asked open-ended questions to name the disorder (correct answers in parenthesis): “Name the disorder characterized by lack of energy, problems concentrating,...
ADOLESCENTS' MENTAL HEALTH LITERACY: POSITIVE MENTAL HEALTH LITERACY QUESTIONNAIRE, GENDER AND MENTAL HEALTH In this study, the validity of a new measure of positive mental health literacy (MHL) is explored in a sample of adolescents: the Positive Mental Health Li... MDC Mariana,MDL Vale-Dias,...
Health literacy in patients with chronic hepatitis B attending a tertiary hospital in Melbourne: a questionnaire based survey Background Current estimates suggest over 218,000 individuals in Australia are chronically infected with hepatitis B virus. The majority of these people ar... TF Dahl,BC Cowie...