Student Health and Social Care Professionals' Health Literacy Knowledge: An Exploratory Study.

ABSTRACT: Health literacy is essential for shared decision-making and improved health outcomes, and patients with inadequate health literacy often need additional support from health and social care professionals. Despite global calls for developing tertiary-level health literacy education, the extent of this in Australian health and social care professional degrees is unknown. This research explored students' health literacy knowledge across five health and social care professional disciplines. A web-based questionnaire was disseminated to student health and social care professionals enrolled in one of two Australian universities. Questions explored students' factual and conceptual health literacy knowledge, and responses were inductively themed and reported descriptively. Of the 90 students who pa

SUBMITTER: Wood H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10037638 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature