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

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...

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Autores principales: Rohwer, Elisabeth, Mojtahedzadeh, Natascha, Neumann, Felix Alexander, Nienhaus, Albert, Augustin, Matthias, Harth, Volker, Zyriax, Birgit-Christiane, Mache, Stefanie
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8624592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34831499
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182211743
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author Rohwer, Elisabeth
Mojtahedzadeh, Natascha
Neumann, Felix Alexander
Nienhaus, Albert
Augustin, Matthias
Harth, Volker
Zyriax, Birgit-Christiane
Mache, Stefanie
author_facet Rohwer, Elisabeth
Mojtahedzadeh, Natascha
Neumann, Felix Alexander
Nienhaus, Albert
Augustin, Matthias
Harth, Volker
Zyriax, Birgit-Christiane
Mache, Stefanie
author_sort Rohwer, Elisabeth
collection PubMed
description 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). Although no significant associations between health literacy and health behaviours or perceived information sufficiency were found, perceived information sufficiency and perceived stress (OR = 3.194; 95% CI: 1.542–6.614), and pandemic-related worries (OR = 3.073; 95% CI: 1.471–6.421; OR = 4.243; 95% CI: 2.027–8.884) seem to be related. Therefore, dissemination of reliable information and resource-building measures to reduce worries may be important parameters for improving outpatient caregivers’ health. Our results provide first explorative insights, representing a starting point for further research. Considering outpatient caregivers’ mobile work setting, they need to be provided with adequate equipment and comprehensible information to ensure physically and mentally healthy working conditions.
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spelling pubmed-86245922021-11-27 The Role of Health Literacy among Outpatient Caregivers during the COVID-19 Pandemic Rohwer, Elisabeth Mojtahedzadeh, Natascha Neumann, Felix Alexander Nienhaus, Albert Augustin, Matthias Harth, Volker Zyriax, Birgit-Christiane Mache, Stefanie Int J Environ Res Public Health Article 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). Although no significant associations between health literacy and health behaviours or perceived information sufficiency were found, perceived information sufficiency and perceived stress (OR = 3.194; 95% CI: 1.542–6.614), and pandemic-related worries (OR = 3.073; 95% CI: 1.471–6.421; OR = 4.243; 95% CI: 2.027–8.884) seem to be related. Therefore, dissemination of reliable information and resource-building measures to reduce worries may be important parameters for improving outpatient caregivers’ health. Our results provide first explorative insights, representing a starting point for further research. Considering outpatient caregivers’ mobile work setting, they need to be provided with adequate equipment and comprehensible information to ensure physically and mentally healthy working conditions. MDPI 2021-11-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8624592/ /pubmed/34831499 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182211743 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Neumann, Felix Alexander
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Augustin, Matthias
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Zyriax, Birgit-Christiane
Mache, Stefanie
The Role of Health Literacy among Outpatient Caregivers during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34831499
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182211743
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