Establishing the efficacy of interventions to improve health literacy and health behaviours: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The primary aim of this review was to establish whether health literacy interventions, in adults, are effective for improving health literacy. Two secondary aims assessed the impact of health literacy interventions on health behaviours and whether health literacy interventions have been conducted in cardiovascular patients.

Methods

A systematic review (Prospero registration: CRD42018110772) with no start date running through until April 2020. Eligible studies were conducted in adults and included a pre/post measure of health literacy. Medline, Embase, Eric, PsychINFO, CINAHL, Psychology and Behavioural Science, HMIC, Web of Science, Scopus, Social Care Online, NHS Scotland Journals, Social Policy and Practice, and Global Health were searched. Two thousand one hund

SUBMITTER: Walters R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7329558 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature