Health literacy of Dutch adults: a cross sectional survey
Health literacy of Dutch adults: a cross sectional survey
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DOI：
10.1186/1471-2458-13-179
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发表时间：
2013-02-27
影响因子：
4.5
通讯作者：
Uiters, Ellen
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作者：
van der Heide, Iris;Rademakers, Jany;Uiters, Ellen
背景：迄今为止，欧洲普通人群中关于健康素养的知识相对较少。重要的是要深入了解一般人群的健康素养能力，因为这可能有助于更有效地促进健康，并有助于澄清健康方面的社会经济差距。本文是欧洲健康素养调查（HLS-EU）的一部分。其目的是通过衡量在各个卫生领域获得卫生信息的困难，增加关于卫生知识普及的理论知识，同时考察一些能力。卫生知识普及的定义和衡量标准仍然是一个有争议的话题，几乎没有任何适用于一般人群的工具。我们的目标是获得一个初步措施的健康素养在荷兰的一般人群的样本，并将这一措施的教育，收入，社会地位，年龄和sex.Methods：HLS-EU问卷管理面对面的样本中的925荷兰成年人，在2011年7月。在医疗保健、疾病预防和健康促进领域内，对获得、理解、评价和应用信息的健康素养能力方面的感知困难进行了测量。多元线性回归分析，探讨健康素养能力和教育，收入，感知社会地位，年龄和sex.Results之间的关联：感知困难与健康信息及其与人口和社会经济变量的关联不同，根据能力和健康域解决。具有较低的教育水平或较低的社会地位或被认为是男性一直被认为是显着相关的相对较低的健康素养分数，主要是为访问和理解健康information.Conclusions：感知的困难与健康信息的能力和健康领域之间的变化。卫生知识普及能力与社会经济地位指标以及提供卫生信息的领域有关。
Background: Relatively little knowledge is available to date about health literacy among the general population in Europe. It is important to gain insights into health literacy competences among the general population, as this might contribute to more effective health promotion and help clarify socio-economic disparities in health. This paper is part of the European Health Literacy Survey (HLS-EU). It aims to add to the body of theoretical knowledge about health literacy by measuring perceived difficulties with health information in various domains of health, looking at a number of competences. The definition and measure of health literacy is still topic of debate and hardly any instruments are available that are applicable for the general population. The objectives were to obtain an initial measure of health literacy in a sample of the general population in the Netherlands and to relate this measure to education, income, perceived social status, age, and sex.Methods: The HLS-EU questionnaire was administered face-to-face in a sample of 925 Dutch adults, during July 2011. Perceived difficulties with the health literacy competences for accessing, understanding, appraising and applying information were measured within the domains of healthcare, disease prevention and health promotion. Multiple linear regression analyses were applied to explore the associations between health literacy competences and education, income, perceived social status, age, and sex.Results: Perceived difficulties with health information and their association with demographic and socio-economic variables vary according to the competence and health domain addressed. Having a low level of education or a low perceived social status or being male were consistently found to be significantly related to relatively low health literacy scores, mainly for accessing and understanding health information.Conclusions: Perceived difficulties with health information vary between competences and domains of health. Health literacy competences are associated with indicators of socio-economic position and with the domain in which health information is provided.