Development and Psychometric Properties of a Questionnaire Assessing Self-Reported Generic Health Literacy in Adolescence

Domańska, Olga; Bollweg, Torsten Michael; Loer, Anne-Kathrin Mareike; Holmberg, Christine; Schenk, Liane; Jordan, Susanne

doi:10.3390/ijerph17082860

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“…Rathmann and colleagues [74] consider the organizational health literacy in facilities for people with disabilities in their pilot mixed-methods study: "Organisational Health Literacy in Facilities for People with Disabilities: First Results of an Explorative Qualitative and Quantitative Study". Domanska et al [75] provide new evidence around self-reported health literacy in adolescence in "Development and Psychometric Properties of a Questionnaire Assessing Self-Reported Generic Health Literacy in Adolescence".…”

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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health Literacy Research Around the World: More Important Than Ever in a Time of COVID-19

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As we write our editorial for a health literacy special issue in the midst of the international COVID-19 crisis, we take this opportunity to highlight the importance of individual, community, and population health literacy. We are not only in a "pandemic" but also an "infodemic". Health literacy is more important than ever in the face of these global health threats, which have impacted outcomes across the levels of the socio-ecological model (SEM), including individual health behaviors, family relationships, organizational behavior, state policy-making, national mortality statistics, and the international economy in the span of weeks. Our special issue sought to pull together interdisciplinary threads guided by two principles. The first was defining health literacy as essential skills and situational resources needed for people to find, understand, evaluate, communicate, and use information and services in a variety of forms across various settings throughout their life course to promote health and wellbeing. The second was the idea that enhancing health literacy in populations and systems is critical to achieving health equity. In this time of public health need across traditional borders, the inter-sectoral and international perspectives of special issue articles are more urgent than ever. A greater understanding, appreciation, and application of health literacy can support policy action on multiple levels to address major public health challenges. Health literacy should be built deliberately as a population-level resource and community asset. We have summarized the set of articles in this special issue across the levels of the SEM, hoping their thoughtful considerations and interesting findings will help to support global health and wellness and inspire future research, policy, and practice in this global public health emergency and beyond.As we write this special issue editorial in the midst of the global health threat of COVID-19, individual, community, and population health literacy are more important than ever [3][4][5][6][7]. Personal health behaviors, family relationships, organizational actions, state policy, national mortality statistics, and the international economy have changed in the span of weeks because of decision-making influenced by, and influencing, health literacy. Critical health literacy and digital health literacy are urgently needed by both the citizenry and policy makers to synthesize, analyze, and appraise the vast amount of urgent, complex, and even conflicting information from virologists, epidemiologists, data modelers, doctors, nurses, health departments, and the media [3,[5][6][7]. Health literacy capacities allow us to be well-informed about risks, resources, and recommendations and, ideally, to act in solidarity-based behaviors to achieve public health [3,4,7]. It is increasingly clear that social responsibility and solidarity may be key outcomes of health literacy, helping to combat decisions and policies that go against current COVID-19 evidence and best practice public health...

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Section: Organizational Level: Schools Students and Adolescentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health Literacy Research Around the World: More Important Than Ever in a Time of COVID-19

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Vamos

Okan

2020

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“…In anderen Studien, die mittels HLS-EU-Q selbstberichtete GK erfassen, zeigt sich, dass bei 15- [19] sowie 14-bis 17-Jährigen [7] selbstberichtete und funktionale GK korrelieren, was auch bei Erwachsenen beobachtet wurde [11].…”

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Fourth-graders’ health literacy

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Zusammenfassung Hintergrund Die Gesundheitskompetenz (GK) junger Menschen wird von Wissenschaft und Politik zunehmend als Ansatzpunkt für Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention anerkannt. Gerade die GK von Kindern wurde jedoch, insbesondere in Deutschland, bisher kaum erforscht. Diese Studie widmet sich dieser Forschungslücke, indem sie die GK von Viertklässler*innen in Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW) untersucht. Ziel der Arbeit (Fragestellung) Die Fragestellung ist die explorative Beschreibung verschiedener Dimensionen der GK von Kindern unter Berücksichtigung sozioökonomischer Merkmale. Material und Methoden Es wurde eine schriftliche Klassenraumbefragung durchgeführt. Der Fragebogen, der speziell für 9‑ bis 10-Jährige entwickelt wurde, umfasst drei Dimensionen der GK: selbstberichtete allgemeine GK, funktionale GK (schriftsprachliche und numerische Fähigkeiten) und das Gesundheitswissen. Ergebnisse Es wurden 899 Schüler*innen an 32 Schulen befragt. Hierbei wurde eine hohe selbstberichtete GK ermittelt: die Befragten empfinden den Umgang mit Gesundheitsinformationen als einfach. Kinder mit niedrigem Wohlstand schneiden in allen Dimensionen der GK signifikant schlechter ab. Dies gilt mit Ausnahme der selbstberichteten GK auch für Kinder, die zuhause nicht nur Deutsch sprechen. Schlussfolgerung Diese Studie untersucht erstmals die GK von Viertklässler*innen in NRW. Wenngleich die selbstberichtete GK hoch ist, zeigt sich schon bei dieser jungen Altersgruppe ein sozialer Gradient hinsichtlich Wohlstand und Sprache. Die Forschungslage ist für das Kindesalter zwar noch lückenhaft und es besteht weiterhin Forschungsbedarf, die Ergebnisse deuten aber auf einen frühen Interventionsbedarf hin, um allen Kindern unabhängig von ihrer Herkunft zu ermöglichen, GK in dem Maß zu entwickeln, wie es der eigenen Gesundheit zuträglich ist.

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“…Finally, a random sample of adolescents per birth cohort was drawn based on calculations which consider the community size and sample points (first birth cohort: 01.09. [39]. The response rate (17.3%) following the first batch of study invitations (n = 500) was lower than expected.…”

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“…In pretest, the MOHLAA-Q scales yielded acceptable validity indicators. The reliability coefficients (Cronbach's α) of the scales reported were 0.54 to 0.77 [39]. The psychometric properties of the MOHLAA-Q indicated that the instrument can be used to assess different dimensions of health literacy.…”

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Online Survey for the Assessment of Generic Health Literacy among Adolescents in Germany (GeKoJu): Study Protocol

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Domańska

Kuhnert

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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 Among Adolescents” (GeKoJu) that collects the first nation-wide representative data on self-reported generic health among adolescents aged 14–17 years in Germany. The objectives of the survey are (1) to assess the distribution of generic health literacy among adolescents in Germany, (2) to identify socio-demographic and social factors in regard to health literacy and (3) to assess the association of health literacy and health-related outcomes. The cross-sectional survey was conducted from September 2019 through December 2019. A two-stage stratified cluster sampling strategy was applied. Individuals invited to participate in the survey (N = 6608) were randomly selected among German-speaking adolescents aged 14–17 years, with permanent residence in Germany. Generic health literacy is measured with the “Measurement of Health Literacy Among Adolescents-Questionnaire” (MOHLAA-Q). Data collection also covers questions on health behavior, subjective health status, personal and social resources, socio-demographic and social factors and health services use. Results of the GeKoJu survey will provide data for the development of strategies to promote generic health literacy among families, in schools, communities and health care.

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Development and Psychometric Properties of a Questionnaire Assessing Self-Reported Generic Health Literacy in Adolescence

Cited by 22 publications

References 73 publications

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health Literacy Research Around the World: More Important Than Ever in a Time of COVID-19

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health Literacy Research Around the World: More Important Than Ever in a Time of COVID-19

Fourth-graders’ health literacy

Online Survey for the Assessment of Generic Health Literacy among Adolescents in Germany (GeKoJu): Study Protocol

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