Measuring health professionals' capability to respond to health consumers' health literacy needs: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT: Health literacy-responsive health professionals will be increasingly important in addressing healthcare access and equity issues. This international scoping review aims to understand the extent and ways in which health professionals respond to healthcare users' health literacy, identifying tools used to measure health literacy responsiveness and training to support the development of these attributes. Four online databases were searched. Using Covidence software and pre-determined inclusion/exclusion criteria, all articles were screened by two authors. Data were extracted using a researcher-developed data extraction tool. From the 1531 studies located, 656 were screened at title and abstract and 137 were assessed at full text; 68 studies met the inclusion criteria and 61 were identified th

SUBMITTER: Nash R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11649997 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature