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Abstract
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 was reached on 92 of 99 competencies, using a modified Delphi technique.
Conclusions The 92 competencies in health literacy practice embraced core components of patient education in the Chinese healthcare profession.
- health literacy
- competencies
- Delphi method
- health profession
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Contributors Y-CC, FLW and L-CC conducted the qualitative interviews. L-LL and L-CC analysed the interview and Delphi data. L-CC wrote the manuscript. All authors critically revised and approved the final manuscript.
Funding This project was funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (NSC 100-2511-S-255-001-MY2), and financial assistance was received from Chang Gung Memorial Hospital (BMRP 978).
Competing interests None declared.
Patient consent Obtained.
Ethics approval Chang Gung Memorial Hospital.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
Data sharing statement Additional data can be accessed via the Dryad data repository at http://datadryad.org/ with the doi:10.5061/dryad.86t23.