Communicative health literacy and associated variables in nine European countries: results from the HLS 19 survey.

Autor: Metanmo S; INSERM, IRD, ISSPAM, SESSTIM, Cancer, Biomedicine & Society Group, Ligue 2019 Accredited Team, Aix Marseille Univ, 13009, Marseille, France., Finbråten HS; Department of Health and Nursing Sciences, Faculty of Social and Health Sciences, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, P.O. Box 400, 2418, Elverum, Norway., Bøggild H; Public Health and Epidemiology, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, 9220, Aalborg, Denmark., Nowak P; Competence Centre for Health Promotion and Health System, Austrian National Public Health Institute, 1010, Vienna, Austria., Griebler R; Competence Centre for Health Promotion and Health System, Austrian National Public Health Institute, 1010, Vienna, Austria., Guttersrud Ø; Norwegian Centre for Science Education, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo, Blindern, PO Box 1106, 0317, Oslo, Norway., Bíró É; Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, 4028, Debrecen, Hungary., Brigid U; Department of Cardiovascular, Endocrine-Metabolic Diseases and Aging, Istituto Superiore Di Sanità, 00162, Rome, Italy., Charafeddine R; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium., Griese L; School of Public Health, Bielefeld University, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany., Kucera Z; Czech Health Literacy Institute, Sokolská 490/31, 120 00, Prague, Czech Republic., Le C; Department of Health and Nursing Sciences, Faculty of Social and Health Sciences, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, P.O. Box 400, 2418, Elverum, Norway., Schaeffer D; School of Public Health, Bielefeld University, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany., Vrdelja M; Communication Unit, National Institute of Public Health, Trubarjeva 2, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia., Mancini J; INSERM, IRD, ISSPAM, SESSTIM, Cancer, Biomedicine & Society Group, Ligue 2019 Accredited Team, Aix Marseille Univ, 13009, Marseille, France. julien.mancini@univ-amu.fr.; APHM, Public Health Department (BIOSTIC), 13005, Marseille, France. julien.mancini@univ-amu.fr.; UMR1252 SESSTIM (Aix-Marseille Univ), Institut Paoli-Calmettes, 232 Bd Ste Marguerite, BP 156, 13273, Marseille Cedex 9, France. julien.mancini@univ-amu.fr.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Scientific reports [Sci Rep] 2024 Dec 04; Vol. 14 (1), pp. 30245. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Dec 04.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-79327-w
Abstrakt: Our study aimed to report on variables associated with communicative health literacy (COM-HL) in European adults. The HLS 19 survey was conducted in 2019-2021 including nine countries which measured COM-HL by using a validated questionnaire (HLS 19 -COM-P-Q6 with a score ranging from 0 to 100). Linear regression models were used to study variables associated with COM-HL globally (multilevel model with random intercepts and slopes and at country level) and in each country. Additional models studied each of the HLS 19 -COM-P-Q6 items separately. The mean COM-HL score ranged between 62.5 and 76.6 across countries. Among the 18,137 pooled participants, COM-HL was positively associated with age, a higher self-perceived social status, previous training in healthcare, an increasing number of general practitioner visits; and negatively associated with female sex, reported financial difficulties, having a chronic condition and an increasing number of specialist visits. These effects were heterogeneous from one country to another, and from one item to another when analysing the different COM-HL items separately. However, there was a consistent statistically significant association between COM-HL (score and each item) and financial difficulties as well as self-perceived social status in all countries. Interventions to improve communication between patients and physicians should be a high priority to limit communication disparities.
Competing Interests: Declarations. Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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