“…Two studies were descriptive, using a single instrument, the Health Literacy Questionnaire (Beauchamp et al., ; Bo, Friis, Osborne, & Maindal, ). Two studies used comparative analyses, using two instruments in each study (Jayasinghe et al., ; Tennant et al., ). In terms of sampling, two studies used randomised samples from specific settings, health and community care organisations (Beauchamp et al., ) and general practices (Jayasinghe et al., ), and two were population based samples.…”