The Role of Health Literacy among Outpatient Caregivers during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT: Health literacy became an important competence during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite outpatient caregivers being a particularly vulnerable occupational group, their health literacy has hardly been examined yet, especially during the pandemic. Hence, this study aimed to explore this field and provide first empirical insights. Data were collected based on a cross-sectional online survey among 155 outpatient caregivers. In particular, health literacy (HLS-EU-Q16), diet and physical activity, pandemic-related worries, perceived information sufficiency and stress perception were examined. Descriptive and ordinal logistic regression analyses were run to test explorative assumptions. The majority of outpatient caregivers reported high values of health literacy (69% on a sufficient level). Althoug

SUBMITTER: Rohwer E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8624592 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature