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Measuring health literacy in populations: illuminating the design and development process of the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q)

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, October 2013
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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Title
Measuring health literacy in populations: illuminating the design and development process of the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q)
Published in
BMC Public Health, October 2013
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-13-948
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Authors

Kristine Sørensen, Stephan Van den Broucke, Jürgen M Pelikan, James Fullam, Gerardine Doyle, Zofia Slonska, Barbara Kondilis, Vivian Stoffels, Richard H Osborne, Helmut Brand

Abstract

Several measurement tools have been developed to measure health literacy. The tools vary in their approach and design, but few have focused on comprehensive health literacy in populations. This paper describes the design and development of the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q), an innovative, comprehensive tool to measure health literacy in populations.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Denmark 4 <1%
Australia 2 <1%
United States 2 <1%
Iceland 2 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Israel 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 789 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 126 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 88 11%
Researcher 78 10%
Student > Bachelor 53 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 39 5%
Other 171 21%
Unknown 249 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 157 20%
Nursing and Health Professions 121 15%
Social Sciences 79 10%
Psychology 39 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 20 2%
Other 111 14%
Unknown 277 34%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 30. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 June 2023.
All research outputs
#1,203,636
of 23,924,386 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#1,322
of 15,559 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,414
of 213,131 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#27
of 283 outputs
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