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Adaptation and validation of the Digital Health Literacy Instrument for Portugu...
Martins, Silvana; Augusto, Cláudia; Martins, Maria R. O.; José Silva, Maria; Okan, Orkan; Dadaczynsky, Kevin; Duarte, Ana; Fronteira, Inês; Ramos, NeidaPublisher Copyright: © 2022 Australian Health Promotion Association.; Background: Health literacy is an important skill to deal with information and positively influences individual and community health. Information concerning health is available from a plethora of online resources. The concept of digital health literacy has gained prominence with the pandemic. The absence of valid tools to analyse digital lite...
Infodemic Preparedness and COVID-19: Searching about Public Health and Social M...
Rosário, Rafaela; Fronteira, Inês; Martins, Maria R. O.; Augusto, Cláudia; Silva, Maria José; Messer, Melanie; Martins, Silvana; Duarte, AnaWe aimed to evaluate the associations between information searching about public health and social measures (PHSM) and university students’ digital health literacy (DHL) related to the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and COVID-19. Methods: This cross-sectional study included 3,084 Portuguese university students (75.7% females), with an average age of 24.2 (SD = 7.5). Sociodemographic data, DHL questionnaire and on...
Generic health literacy measurement instruments for children and adolescents
Okan, Orkan; Lopes, Ester; Bollweg, Torsten Michael; Bröder, Janine; Messer, Melanie; Bruland, Dirk; Bond, Emma; Carvalho, Gracą S.; Sørensen, KristineBackground: Health literacy is an important health promotion concern and recently children and adolescents have been the focus of increased academic attention. To assess the health literacy of this population, researchers have been focussing on developing instruments to measure their health literacy. Compared to the wider availability of instruments for adults, only a few tools are known for younger age groups....
Health literacy in childhood and youth
Bröder, Janine; Okan, Orkan; Bauer, Ullich; Bruland, Dirk; Schlupp, Sandra; Bollweg, Torsten M.; Saboga-Nunes, Luis; Bond, Emma; Sørensen, KristineBackground: Children and young people constitute a core target group for health literacy research and practice: during childhood and youth, fundamental cognitive, physical and emotional development processes take place and health-related behaviours and skills develop. However, there is limited knowledge and academic consensus regarding the abilities and knowledge a child or young person should possess for makin...