Zhongguo quanke yixue (Nov 2022)
Research Status of Health Literacy Assessment Tools from the Perspective of Active Health and Its Enlightenment to China
Abstract
Background The Outline of the "Healthy China 2030" Plan points out improve the health literacy and lifestyle monitoring system covering the whole country, strengthen personal health responsibility, improve residents' self-health management ability and health level, in order to greatly improve the level of national health literacy. Scientific health literacy assessment tools can systematically understand the health literacy level of residents and provide targeted interventions. The health literacy assessment started late in China. The content of existing health literacy assessment tool should been improved, which is called Chinese Citizens' Health Literacy-Trial Implementation of Basic Knowledge and Skills (to try out), because it is definitely important to create an effective and reliable health literacy assessment tool. Objective Based on the perspective of active health, this paper reviews the relevant literature on health literacy assessment tools at home and abroad. Methods Chinese and foreign databases of PubMed, Web of Science, CNKI, Wanfang and VIP were systematically retrieved using keywords including "Health literacy" "Tool""Evaluation" "Assessment" "Questionnaire" "Scale". The related literature of health literacy assessment tools was obtained with the retrieval time from 1990-01-01 to 2021-06-30, and the current situation and contents of health literacy assessment tools were reviewed. Results A total of 47 health literacy assessment tools were screened, including 27 objective assessment tools and 20 subjective assessment tools. The most of research and development (R&D) and application is in the United States (22) , followed by Europe (13) . The number of English tools is the largest (25) , followed by Portuguese (5) , Italian (3) and Spanish (2) . The evaluation time of REALM-SF, SILS is the shortest (1 minute) , and the longest for MHLS (25 minutes) . The least item is in SILS (1 item) , and REALM (125 items) has the most evaluated items. The most widely used evaluation tools are the REALM series scale and TOFHLA series scale in objective evaluation tools, and the HLS-EU-Q series scale in subjective evaluation tools. The evaluation mainly content involves vocabulary recognition, information acquisition, computing ability, reading comprehension, information exchange, information application and so on. Conclusion The development and application of health literacy assessment tools are dominated by European and American countries, and the number of objective health literacy assessment tools is in the majority. As the change of the connotation of health literacy from a single personal assessment to a comprehensive assessment of individuals and external environment, the R&D of health literacy assessment tools in China should be based on the establishment of unified standards across the country on the premise of deepening the connotation of health literacy and the concept of active health, the indicators should mainly be quantitative or semi quantitative indicators. A health literacy assessment tool suitable for China's national conditions covering the whole life cycle should be developed to provide scientific and effective support for improving the health literacy level of residents.
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