We need to change the focus of health literacy research by studying which approaches to dealing with health literacy result in the best outcomes for patients鈥攎aking them healthier, having fewer complications, and reducing their health care costs. There is a paucity of high-quality research on ...
Articles included in this issue not only highlight the progress that has been made but also acknowledge the many challenges and limitations associated with health literacy research. We hope that the research included in this special issue will be valuable and will help advance future health literacy...
According to some research, people with low health literacy scored lower on the diabetes awareness test. As a result, they were less likely to control their glucose levels and had lower HbA1c levels than those with higher HL [37]. The self-efficacy of elderly people with T2DM was found to...
2.1 Health literacy in medical and public health research The health literacy concept was first developed in medical research to identify requirements for patients to participate effectively in health care systems. This effort was prompted in part by the adoption of patient-centered care and patient ...
2022, Journal of Medical Internet Research Associations between health literacy, ehealth literacy, and covid-19-related health behaviors among chinese college students: Cross-sectional online study 2021, Journal of Medical Internet Research Relationship between coronavirus-related ehealth literacy and COVID...
The average quality of the articles was fair to good. Most studies were cross-sectional in design; many failed to address adequately confounding and the use of multiple comparisons. CONCLUSIONS: Low literacy is associated with several adverse health outcomes. Future research, using more rigorous ...
and comprehension of cancer prevention and treatment education.Methods Original research articles written from 1992 to 2006 inclusive with the terms health literacy and/or literacy in the title,or key words and explicitly linked to cancer information were found by searching MEDLINE, PsycINFO, CSA Soci...
New: Improving health literacy to reduce health inequalities Guest edited by Laura Sahm and Jenna Smith New: Development of health services complex interventions Guest edited by Martin Mueller Amplifying Marginalized Voices: conducting health services research by or with marginalized communities ...
Interdisciplinary Center for Health Literacy Research, Bielefeld University, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health2020,17(9), 3010;https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17093010 ...
health literacy in Africa with regards to research approaches, historical developments, geographic origins, target populations and settings, and topical interests. The research followed Arksey and O’Malley six steps of scoping reviews and employed the Joanna Briggs Institute’s PCC method for search ...