ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2021
A Comparative Analysis of Student and Practising Nurses' Health Literacy Knowledge in Ghana.
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- Health Literacy Among Young People in Africa: Evidence Synthesis.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2023Review
- The roles of nurses in supporting health literacy: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Do health literacy levels of nursing students change throughout the study programme? A cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Assessing the validity of digital health literacy instrument for secondary school students in Ghana: The polychoric factor analytic approach.Frontiers in digital health · 2022Article
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Abstract
This study examined student and practising nurses' health literacy knowledge, and its correlates in Ghana. It was underpinned by an adapted version of the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) conceptual framework of health literacy. We used convenience and snowball sampling techniques to collect data from 876 nurses (477 student nurses and 399 practising nurses) in a cross-sectional survey from February 2019 to June 2019. The respondents were drawn from all the former ten administrative regions of Ghana. Approximately 75.4% of the respondents had heard of health literacy. However, health literacy knowledge was generally low (average score of 6.6 out of 20) among both groups, with student nurses (average score of 5.8 out of 20) having significantly lower scores than practising nurses (average score of 7.4 out of 20). Factors associated with health literacy knowledge among student nurses included gender (male, B = -0.499,
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