Exploring health literacy competencies toward patient education program for Chinese-speaking healthcare professionals: a Delphi study

Objectives: To achieve consensus on a set of competencies in health literacy practice based on a literature review and expert consultation. Setting: Hospitals and community health centres in Taiwan. Method: A 2-stage modified Delphi study involving a literature review was conducted, followed by qualitative interviews and 3 rounds of email-based data collection over a 3-month period in 2011. Participants: 15 Chinese healthcare practitioners with more than 6 months’ experience in patient education were interviewed to collect data on health literacy practice. 24 experts (12 academic scholars in health literacy and 12 professionals with training related to health literacy practice) were invited to participate in the Delphi process. Results: Qualitative data from the interviews were analysed and summarised to form 99 competency items for health literacy practice, which were categorised into 5 domains of health literacy practice including those pertaining to knowledge and skills. Consensus wa...

目标：基于文献综述与专家咨询，就健康素养实践（health literacy practice）的一组核心能力达成共识。
研究场景：台湾地区的医院及社区卫生中心。
方法：采用两阶段改良德尔菲法（modified Delphi study），先进行文献综述，随后开展定性访谈，并于2011年在3个月内通过电子邮件完成3轮数据收集。
研究对象：访谈15名具有6个月以上患者教育经验的中国医疗从业者，以收集健康素养实践相关数据；邀请24名专家（12名健康素养领域的学术学者及12名接受过健康素养实践相关培训的专业人士）参与德尔菲过程。
结果：对访谈所得定性数据进行分析与总结，形成99项健康素养实践能力条目，这些条目被归类为5个健康素养实践领域，包括知识与技能相关领域。共识（原文内容不完整）...