Health literacy measures: A systematic review of the literature
Objective (s): Health literacy is a relatively new emerging concept in public health. It is also a new area for research with links to communication. It has been suggested that poor health literacy poses a major barrier to public’s health and might represent a major cost to health care system. The a...
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| author | Mahmoud Tavousi Mahdi Ebadi Esmaeil Fattahi Leila Jahangiry Akram Hashemi Mina Hashemiparast Ali Montazeri |
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| description | Objective (s): Health literacy is a relatively new emerging concept in public health. It is also a new area for research with links to communication. It has been suggested that poor health literacy poses a major barrier to public’s health and might represent a major cost to health care system. The aim of this study was to review instruments that measure health literacy.
Methods: A review was undertaken of all the full publications in the English language biomedical journals between 1993 and 2012. The search included the combination of keywords ‘health literacy’, and ‘tool’, or ‘instrument’, or ‘scale’, or ‘questionnaire’, or ‘measure’, that appeared in the titles/abstracts of the publications. In addition, a manual search was performed to include additional papers of potential interest.
Results: In all 1788 citations were identified. After screening, 1265 duplicate citations were excluded. The remaining 523 citations were further examined and 438 citations were found irrelevant. Finally the full texts of 85 papers were assessed. Of these 42 papers were found to be relevant and were included in this systematic review. We identified 23 instruments that were used to measure health literacy. These all were introduced.
Conclusion: Lack of comprehensive instrument to measure health literacy was evident. Thus, developing a new instrument seems necessary. A new tool should be simple, short, and inclusive. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a48ca2eee6934e2196cefe0ac32360862022-12-21T19:21:05ZfasIranian Institute for Health Sciences ResearchPayesh1680-76262008-45362015-08-01144485496Health literacy measures: A systematic review of the literatureMahmoud Tavousi0Mahdi Ebadi1Esmaeil Fattahi2Leila Jahangiry3Akram Hashemi4Mina Hashemiparast5Ali Montazeri6 Health Metrics Research Center, Iranian Institutes for Health Sciences Research, ACECR, Tehran, Iran Health Metrics Research Center, Iranian Institutes for Health Sciences Research, ACECR, Tehran, Iran School of Public Health, Sabzevar University Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, Iran Health education & Promotion Department, School of Public Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences,Tabriz, Iran Health Metrics Research Center, Iranian Institutes for Health Sciences Research, ACECR, Tehran, Iran Health Metrics Research Center, Iranian Institutes for Health Sciences Research, ACECR, Tehran, Iran Health Metrics Research Center, Iranian Institutes for Health Sciences Research, ACECR, Tehran, Iran Objective (s): Health literacy is a relatively new emerging concept in public health. It is also a new area for research with links to communication. It has been suggested that poor health literacy poses a major barrier to public’s health and might represent a major cost to health care system. The aim of this study was to review instruments that measure health literacy. Methods: A review was undertaken of all the full publications in the English language biomedical journals between 1993 and 2012. The search included the combination of keywords ‘health literacy’, and ‘tool’, or ‘instrument’, or ‘scale’, or ‘questionnaire’, or ‘measure’, that appeared in the titles/abstracts of the publications. In addition, a manual search was performed to include additional papers of potential interest. Results: In all 1788 citations were identified. After screening, 1265 duplicate citations were excluded. The remaining 523 citations were further examined and 438 citations were found irrelevant. Finally the full texts of 85 papers were assessed. Of these 42 papers were found to be relevant and were included in this systematic review. We identified 23 instruments that were used to measure health literacy. These all were introduced. Conclusion: Lack of comprehensive instrument to measure health literacy was evident. Thus, developing a new instrument seems necessary. A new tool should be simple, short, and inclusive.http://payeshjournal.ir/article-1-230-en.htmlhealth literacydefinitionsmeasuressystematic review |
| spellingShingle | Mahmoud Tavousi Mahdi Ebadi Esmaeil Fattahi Leila Jahangiry Akram Hashemi Mina Hashemiparast Ali Montazeri Health literacy measures: A systematic review of the literature Payesh health literacy definitions measures systematic review |
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| title_short | Health literacy measures: A systematic review of the literature |
| title_sort | health literacy measures a systematic review of the literature |
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