Using co-design to develop interventions to address health literacy needs in a hospitalised population.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health literacy describes the cognitive and social skills which determine the motivation and ability of individuals to gain access to, understand and use information in ways which promote and maintain good health. Suboptimal health literacy is common and is believed to impact up to 60% of Australians. Co-design is a participatory approach to the development of interventions that brings together to staff and patients to design local solutions to local problems. The aim of this study is to describe a staff and patient co-design process that will lead to the development of health literacy interventions in response to identified health literacy needs of hospital patients.

Methods

A mixed methods, two-step sequential explanatory design. Step 1: hospitalised patients su

SUBMITTER: Jessup RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6302392 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature