France

National HLS19 reports

Journal publications:

Metanmo, Salvatore; Finbråten, Hanne Søberg; Bøggild, Henrik; Nowak, Peter; Griebler, Robert; Guttersrud, Øystein; Bíró, Éva; Brigid, Unim; Charafeddine, Rana; Griese, Lennert; Kucera, Zdenek; Le, Christopher; Schaeffer, Doris; Vrdelja, Mitja; Mancini, Julien; & The HLS19 Consortium  (2024): Communicative health literacy and associated variables in nine European countries: results from the HLS19 survey. Scientific Reports 14/1

Khoury G, Ward JK, Mancini J, Gagneux-Brunon A; Luong Nguyen LM. Health literacy and healthcare system confidence as determinants of attitudes to vaccines: a representative cross-sectional study in France. JMIR Public Health Surveill 2024;10:e45837. doi: 10.2196/45837

Touzani R, Dembele E, Schultz E, Rouquette A, Seguin L, Dufour JC, Bannier M, Mancini J. The French General Population's Perception of New Information and Communication Technologies for Medical Consultations: National Survey. J Med Internet Res. 2023 Jun 16;25:e45822. doi: 10.2196/45822. PMID: 37327032

Touzani R, Schultz E, Vandentorren S, Arwidson P, Guillemin F, Bouhnik AD, Rouquette A, Mancini J. Digital contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic in France: Associated factors and reasons for non-use. Int J Med Inform. 2023 Mar;171:104994. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2023.104994. Epub 2023 Jan 13. PMID: 36657257; PMCID: PMC9838029.

Breyton M, Schultz É, Smith A', Rouquette A, Mancini J. Information overload in the context of COVID-19 pandemic: A repeated cross-sectional study. Patient Educ Couns. 2023 May;110:107672. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2023.107672. Epub 2023 Feb 13. PMID: 36827879; PMCID: PMC9922676

Schultz É, Ward JK, Atlani-Duault L, Holmes SM, Mancini J. French Public Familiarity and Attitudes toward Clinical Research during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Mar 5;18(5):2611. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18052611. PMID: 33807787; PMCID: PMC7967331

Articles on HLS19

Arriaga, Miguel; Francisco, Rita; Nogueira, Paulo; Oliveira, Jorge; Silva, Carlota; Câmara, Gisele; Sørensen, Kristine; Dietscher, Christina; Costa, Andreia (2022): Health literacy in Portugal: results of the health literacy population survey project 2019–2021. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19/7:4225. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/7/4225 

Baron-Epel, Orna; Link, Thomas; Griebler, Robert; Bøggild, Henrik; Berens, Eva-Maria; Bíró, Éva; Coy, Deirdre; De Gani, Saskia Maria; Schaeffer, Doris; Sørensen, Kristine; Le, Christopher; Lopatina, Maria; Rowlands, Gillian; Touzani, Rajae; Van den Broucke, Stephan; Vincze, Ferenc; Vrdelja, Mitja; Vrbovsek, Sanja; Levin-Zamir, Diane (2025): Pathways of how health literacy and social support are associated with health outcomes in 17 European countries: Results of mediation analyses. In: Public Health 241/:12-12-18. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0033350625000538 

Berens, Eva-Maria; Klinger, Julia; Carol, Sarah; Schaeffer, Doris (2022): Differences in health literacy domains among migrants and their descendants in Germany. Frontiers in public health https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.988782

Bíró, Éva; Vincze, Ferenc; Nagy-Pénzes, Gabriella; Ádány, Róza (2023): Investigation of the relationship of general and digital health literacy with various health-related outcomes. Frontiers in public health 11 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1229734

Breyton, Martin; Schultz, Émilien; Rouquette, Alexandra; Mancini, Julien (2023): Information overload in the context of COVID-19 pandemic: A repeated cross-sectional study. Patient education and counseling 110/:107672. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/5/2611 

Cadeddu, Chiara; Regazzi, Luca; Bonaccorsi, Guglielmo; Rosano, Aldo; Unim, Brigid; Griebler, Robert; Link, Thomas; De Castro, Paola; D’Elia, Roberto; Mastrilli, Valeria (2022): The determinants of vaccine literacy in the Italian population: results from the health literacy survey 2019. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19/8:4429. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/8/

Drapkina, Oxana; Molosnov, Artemii; Tyufilin, Denis; Lopatina, Maria; Medvedev, Viktor; Chigrina, Valeriya; Kobyakova, Olga; Deev, Ivan; Griese, Lennert; Schaeffer, Doris; Griebler, Robert; Tuillet, Polina; Kontsevaya, Anna (2025): Measuring Navigational Health Literacy in Russia: Validation of the HLS19-NAV-RU. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 22/2:156. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph22020156  

Drapkina, Oxana; Molosnov, Artemii; Tyufilin, Denis; Lopatina, Maria; Medvedev, Viktor; Chigrina, Valeriya; Kobyakova, Olga; Deev, Ivan; Griese, Lennert; Schaeffer, Doris; Griebler, Robert; Tuillet, Polina; Kontsevaya, Anna (2025): Measuring Navigational Health Literacy in Russia: Validation of the HLS19-NAV-RU. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 22/2:156. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph22020156  

Finbråten, Hanne Søberg; Nowak, Peter; Griebler, Robert; Bíró, Éva; Vrdelja, Mitja; Charafeddine, Rana; Griese, Lennert; Bøggild, Henrik; Schaeffer, Doris; Link, Thomas (2022): The HLS19-COM-P, a New Instrument for Measuring Communicative Health Literacy in Interaction with Physicians: Development and Validation in Nine European Countries. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19/18:11592. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811592

Gille, Svea; Griese, Lennert; Schaeffer, Doris (2021): Preferences and Experiences of People with Chronic Illness in Using Different Sources of Health Information: Results of a Mixed-Methods Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18/24:13185. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/24/13185

Griebler, R.; Link, T.; Schutze, D.; Straßmayr, C. (2025): Gesundheitskompetenz messen: Methoden und Instrumente zur Erfassung der allgemeinen Gesundheitskompetenz bei Erwachsenen [Measuring health literacy: methods and tools for assessing general health literacy in adults]. In: Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00103-025-04010-y  

Griese, Lennert; Berens, Eva-Maria; Nowak, Peter; Pelikan, Jürgen M; Schaeffer, Doris (2020): Challenges in Navigating the Health Care System: Development of an Instrument Measuring Navigation Health Literacy. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17/16:5731. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/16/5731

Griese, Lennert; Finbråten, Hanne S; Francisco, Rita; De Gani, Saskia M; Griebler, Robert; Guttersrud, Øystein; Jaks, Rebecca; Le, Christopher; Link, Thomas; Silva da Costa, Andreia (2022): HLS19-NAV—Validation of a New Instrument Measuring Navigational Health Literacy in Eight European Countries. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19/21:13863. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192113863 

Griese, Lennert; Schaeffer, Doris; Berens, Eva-Maria (2022): Navigational health literacy among people with chronic illness. Chronic Illness 19/1. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17423953211073368

Griese, Lennert; Schaeffer, Doris (2025): Health literacy and chronic disease: a comparison of somatic and mental illness. Frontiers in public health 13. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1523723/full#ref17

Israel, F. E. A.; Vincze, F.; Adany, R.; Biro, E. (2025): Communicative health literacy with physicians in healthcare services- results of a Hungarian nationwide survey. In: BMC Public Health 25/1:390 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-21590-1

Khoury, Georges; Ward, Jeremy K; Mancini, Julien; Gagneux-Brunon, Amandine; Luong Nguyen, Liem Binh (2024): Health Literacy and Health Care System Confidence as Determinants of Attitudes to Vaccines in France: Representative Cross-Sectional Study. In: JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 10:e45837. doi: 10.2196/45837

Klinger, Julia; Berens, Eva-Maria; Carol, Sarah; Schaeffer, Doris (2023): Gesundheitskompetenz von Personen mit ex-sowjetischem und türkischem Migrationshintergrund in Deutschland (Health Literacy of People with Former Soviet Union and Turkish Migration Background in Germany). Gesundheitswesen 85(10): 887-894. https://www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/a-2035-9107

Klinger, Julia; Berens, Eva-Maria; Schaeffer, Doris (2023): Health literacy and the role of social support in different age groups: results of a German cross-sectional survey. BMC Public Health 23/1:2259. https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-023-17145-x

Kučera, Zdeněk; Svačina, Štěpán; Šteflová, Alena (2023): Changes in the level of health literacy in Czechia between 2015 and 2020. Casopis lekaru ceskych 162/2-3:84-92

Le, Christopher; Guttersrud, Øystein; Levin-Zamir, Diane; Griebler, Robert; Finbråten, Hanne Søberg (2024): Associations between digital health literacy and health system navigating abilities among Norwegian adolescents: validating the HLS19-DIGI scale using Rasch modeling. In: BMC Public Health 24/1:1-11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-19405-w

Le, C.; Soberg Finbraten, H.; Griebler, R.; Levin-Zamir, D.; Guttersrud, O. (2025): Ability to Utilize Digital Health Services: Validation of the Digital HealthCare Scale in Adolescents and Young Adults. In: Health Lit Res Pract 9/1:e19-e28. https://doi.org/10.3928/24748307-20241204-01

Levin-Zamir, Diane; Van den Broucke, Stephan; Bíró, Éva; Bøggild, Henrik; Bruton, Lucy; De Gani, Saskia Maria; Søberg Finbråten, Hanne; Gibney, Sarah; Griebler, Robert; Griese, Lennert; Guttersrud, Øystein; Klocháňová, Zuzana; Kucera, Zdenek; Le, Christopher; Link, Thomas; Mancini, Julien; Miksova, Dominika; Schaeffer, Doris; Ribeiro da Silva, Carlota; Sørensen, Kristine; Straßmayr, Christa; Telo de Arriaga, Miguel; Vrdelja, Mitja; Pelikan, Jürgen (2025): HLS19-DIGI - a new instrument for measuring digital health literacy: development, validation and associations with determinants and health outcomes in 13 countries. In: Frontiers in public health 13.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1472706

Lopatina, M; Popovich, M; Kontsevaya, A; Drapkina, O (2021): Determinants of health literacy: The results of the first population survey in the Russian Federation. Profil Meditsina 24/:57-64

Lopatina, Maria; Berens, Eva-Maria; Klinger, Julia; Levin-Zamir, Diane; Kostareva, Uliana; Aringazina, Altyn; Drapkina, Oxana; Pelikan, Jürgen M (2022): Adaptation of the Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS19-Q) for Russian-Speaking Populations—International Collaboration across Germany, Israel, Kazakhstan, Russia, and the USA. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19/6:3572. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/6/3572

Lubej, Maruša; Kirbiš, Andrej (2025): Why does health literacy matter, and for whom? Explaining the differentiating impact of health literacy on vaccine attitudes. In: Frontiers in Psychology 16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1470654

McCaskill, Angela; Gasch-Gallen, Angel; Montero-Marco, Jesica (2024): Measuring general health literacy using the HLS19-Q12 in specialty consultations in Spain. In: BMC Public Health 24/1: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-024-20710-7 

McCaskill, A.; Gasch-Gallen, A.; Montero-Marco, J. (2024): The effect of nurse health literacy interventions on patient health literacy scores in specialty consultations: a quasi-experimental study. In: BMC Nurs 23/1:786. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s12912-024-02447-1.pdf

McCaskill, A.; Gasch-Gallen, A.; Montero-Marco, J. (2024): Validation of the Spanish version of the Health Literacy Survey (HLS19-Q12) in secondary care specialty consultations. In: Public Health 237/:116-121. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033350624004049

Metanmo, Salvatore; Finbråten, Hanne Søberg; Bøggild, Henrik; Nowak, Peter; Griebler, Robert; Guttersrud, Øystein; Bíró, Éva; Brigid, Unim; Charafeddine, Rana; Griese, Lennert; Kucera, Zdenek; Le, Christopher; Schaeffer, Doris; Vrdelja, Mitja; Mancini, Julien; & The HLS19 Consortium  (2024): Communicative health literacy and associated variables in nine European countries: results from the HLS19 survey. Scientific Reports 14/1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-79327-w 

Pelikan, Jürgen M.; Link, Thomas; Straßmayr, Christa; Waldherr, Karin; Alfers, Tobias; Bøggild, Henrik; Griebler, Robert; Lopatina, Maria; Mikšová, Dominika; Nielsen, Marie Germund; Peer, Sandra; Vrdelja, Mitja (2022): Measuring Comprehensive, General Health Literacy in the General Adult Population: The Development and Validation of the HLS19-Q12 Instrument in Seventeen Countries. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19/21:14129. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/21/14129

Petrova-Geretto, Elisaveta Danailova; Yanakieva, Antoniya; Vodenicharova, Aleksandrina (2023): HEALTH LITERACY: A CALL FOR ACTION FOR A JUST AND EGALITARIAN SOCIETY. SCIENCE International Journal 2/1:37-40. https://scienceij.com/index.php/sij/article/view/8

Rosano, Aldo; Lorini, Chiara; Unim, Brigid; Griebler, Robert; Cadeddu, Chiara; Regazzi, Luca; Galeone, Daniela; Palmieri, Luigi (2022): Coronavirus-related health literacy: a cross-sectional study during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19/7:3807. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/7/3807

Schaeffer, Doris; Klinger, Julia; Berens, Eva-Maria; Gille, Svea; Griese, Lennert; Vogt, Dominique; Hurrelmann, Klaus (2021): Gesundheitskompetenz der Bevölkerung in Deutschland vor und während der Corona Pandemie. (Health Literacy in Germany before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic). Thieme Verlag: Stuttgart.

Schaeffer, Doris; Berens, Eva-Maria; Vogt, Dominique; Gille, Svea; Griese, Lennert; Klinger, Julia; Hurrelmann, Klaus (2021): Health Literacy in Germany: Findings of a Representative Follow-up Survey. Deutsches Arzteblatt international 118/43:723. https://www.aerzteblatt.de/int/archive/article/221711

Schaeffer, Doris; Gille, Svea; Berens, Eva-Maria; Griese, Lennert; Klinger, Julia; Vogt, Dominique; Hurrelmann, Klaus (2023): Digitale Gesundheitskompetenz der Bevölkerung in Deutschland: Ergebnisse des HLS-GER 2. Das Gesundheitswesen 85/04:323-331. https://www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/a-1670-7636

Schaeffer, Doris; Griese, Lennert; Klinger, Julia (2023): Navigationale Gesundheitskompetenz der Bevölkerung in Deutschland. Das Gesundheitswesen: DOI: 10.1055/a-2148-5221. https://www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/a-2148-5221

Schultz, Émilien; Ward, Jeremy K; Atlani-Duault, Laëtitia; Holmes, Seth M; Mancini, Julien (2021): French public familiarity and attitudes toward clinical research during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18/5:2611. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/5/2611

Touzani, Rajae; Rouquette, Alexandra; Schultz, Emilien; Allaire, Cécile; Carrieri, Patrizia; Mancini, Julien; Hardouin, Jean-Benoit (2024): Psychometric validation of the French version of two scales measuring general (HLS19-Q12) and navigational (HLS19-NAV) health literacy using the Rasch model. In: BMC Public Health 24/1:3079. https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-024-20504-x

Touzani, Rajae; Dembele, Elodie; Schultz, Emilien; Rouquette, Alexandra; Seguin, Lorène; Dufour, Jean-Charles; Bannier, Marie; Mancini, Julien (2023): The French General Population’s Perception of New Information and Communication Technologies for Medical Consultations: National Survey. Journal of Medical Internet Research 25/:e45822 https://www.jmir.org/2023/1/e45822

Touzani, Rajae; Schultz, Emilien; Vandentorren, Stéphanie; Arwidson, Pierre; Guillemin, Francis; Bouhnik, Anne-Déborah; Rouquette, Alexandra; Mancini, Julien (2023): Digital contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic in France: Associated factors and reasons for non-use. International Journal of Medical Informatics 171/:104994 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9838029/

Hungary

Portugal

Journal publications

Arriaga, M.; Francisco, R.; Nogueira, P.; Oliveira, J.; Silva, C.; Câmara, G.; Sørensen, K.; Dietscher, C.; Costa, A. (2022) Health Literacy in Portugal: Results of the Health Literacy Population Survey Project 2019–2021. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 19, 4225. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19074225

 

Russian Federation

Journal publications

Drapkina, Oxana; Molosnov, Artemii; Tyufilin, Denis; Lopatina, Maria; Medvedev, Viktor; Chigrina, Valeriya; Kobyakova, Olga; Deev, Ivan; Griese, Lennert; Schaeffer, Doris; Griebler, Robert; Tuillet, Polina; Kontsevaya, Anna (2025): Measuring Navigational Health Literacy in Russia: Validation of the HLS19-NAV-RU. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 22/2:156. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph22020156  

Lopatina, M.; Berens, E.-M.; Klinger, J.; Levin-Zamir, D.; Kostareva, U.; Aringazina, A.; Drapkina, O.; Pelikan, J.M. (2022). Adaptation of the Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS19-Q) for Russian-Speaking Populations—International Collaboration across Germany, Israel, Kazakhstan, Russia, and the USA. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 3572. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063572 

Lopatina M. et al. (2021). Determinants of health literacy: results of the first population survey in the Russian Federation. Profilakticheskaya Meditsina . 12/31/2021, Vol. 24 Issue 12, p57-64. 8p.

 

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