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ArticleScientific reports2024

Communicative health literacy and associated variables in nine European countries: results from the HLS

Salvatore Metanmo, Hanne Søberg Finbråten, Henrik Bøggild, Peter Nowak, Robert Griebler, Øystein Guttersrud, Éva Bíró, Brigid Unim, Rana Charafeddine, Lennert Griese and 6 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Salvatore MetanmoINSERM, IRD, ISSPAM, SESSTIM, Cancer, Biomedicine & Society Group, Ligue 2019 Accredited Team, Aix Marseille Univ, 13009, Marseille, France.
Hanne Søberg FinbråtenDepartment of Health and Nursing Sciences, Faculty of Social and Health Sciences, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, P.O. Box 400, 2418, Elverum, Norway.
Henrik BøggildPublic Health and Epidemiology, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, 9220, Aalborg, Denmark.
Peter NowakCompetence Centre for Health Promotion and Health System, Austrian National Public Health Institute, 1010, Vienna, Austria.
Robert GrieblerCompetence Centre for Health Promotion and Health System, Austrian National Public Health Institute, 1010, Vienna, Austria.
Øystein GuttersrudNorwegian Centre for Science Education, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo, Blindern, PO Box 1106, 0317, Oslo, Norway.
Éva BíróDepartment of Public Health and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, 4028, Debrecen, Hungary.
Brigid UnimDepartment of Cardiovascular, Endocrine-Metabolic Diseases and Aging, Istituto Superiore Di Sanità, 00162, Rome, Italy.
Rana CharafeddineDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.
Lennert GrieseSchool of Public Health, Bielefeld University, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany.
Zdenek KuceraCzech Health Literacy Institute, Sokolská 490/31, 120 00, Prague, Czech Republic.
Christopher LeDepartment of Health and Nursing Sciences, Faculty of Social and Health Sciences, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, P.O. Box 400, 2418, Elverum, Norway.
Doris SchaefferSchool of Public Health, Bielefeld University, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany.
Mitja VrdeljaCommunication Unit, National Institute of Public Health, Trubarjeva 2, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Julien ManciniINSERM, IRD, ISSPAM, SESSTIM, Cancer, Biomedicine & Society Group, Ligue 2019 Accredited Team, Aix Marseille Univ, 13009, Marseille, France. julien.mancini@univ-amu.fr.
HLS19 Consortium

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Our study aimed to report on variables associated with communicative health literacy (COM-HL) in European adults. The HLS

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Health LiteracyAdolescentAdultAgedCommunicationEuropeFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedSurveys and QuestionnairesYoung AdultCommunicative health literacyHealth disparitiesHLS19Physician–patient communicationSocio-economic status

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PMID39632907
PMCPMC11618785

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