Conceptualization of health literacy from the perspective of children and adolescents - a meta-ethnography.

ABSTRACT: Existing models of health literacy have included a limited perspective of children and adolescents. We conducted a meta-ethnography to develop a child- and adolescent-centered conceptualization of health literacy. We dually screened 3564 abstracts, 205 full texts, assessed the 40 included studies' methodological limitations, and considered 25 data-rich studies in our synthesis. We assessed our confidence in each finding using GRADE-CERQual. Our model shows that health literacy development involves active information seeking (moderate confidence), passive information receiving (very low confidence), processing information (moderate confidence), and (not) taking action (moderate confidence). This process is embedded in a socio-cultural environment, educational system, healthcare system, inte

SUBMITTER: Seidl K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11833097 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature