In: Journal of clinical medicine, 2021, vol. 10, no. 17, p. 13
We set out to measure the health literacy (HL) of COPD patients using the Short Test of Functional Health Literacy (S- TOFHLA), perception-based screening questions (BHLS), and a specific disease knowledge test (COPD-Q). Our main focus is the relationship between functional HL and patients’ disease-knowledge, which contributes to the clarification of the relationship between the different...
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In: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2015, vol. 50, no. 3, p. 407-418
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In: Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz, 2015, vol. 58, no. 9, p. 923-929
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In: International journal of environmental research and public health, 2014, vol. 11, no. 10, p. 10868-10882
The concept of health literacy has been widened to include higher order aspects such as patient decision-making skills while its measurement continued to rely narrowly on reading and numeracy skills, known as functional health literacy. We developed a Judgment Skills measure, designed to assess patients’ ability to make appropriate decisions with regard to their condition. The measure...
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In: International Journal of Public Health, 2014, vol. 59, no. 6, p. 967-974
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In: International Journal of Public Health, 2013, vol. 58, no. 6, p. 939-948
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In: International Journal of Public Health, 2009, vol. 54, no. 5, p. 313-324
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2015 ; COM2015004.
Health literacy, defined as “(…) the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.” (IOM, 2004), has been found to be an important concept in explaining differences in health. Limited health literacy has been linked, amongst others, to worse general health (Wolf,...
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