A scoping review of measures to assess health professionals' competencies related to health literacy.

ABSTRACT: Health professionals play an important role in addressing health literacy and ensuring that health systems and information are easy to understand, access, and navigate. We conducted a scoping review to identify and describe measures and tools that assess health professionals' health literacy competency related to knowledge, skills, practices, attitudes, self-efficacy, and behavioural intentions. Electronic databases MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, PubMed, and Scopus were searched in August 2023 and updated in November 2024. Articles were eligible if they included a measure of health professionals' knowledge, skills, and competencies related to health literacy. We included quantitative studies conducted in all clinical settings and all study types. Two authors independently screened titles, abstra

SUBMITTER: Mac O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12822595 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature