Malene Nerbøvik Stavdal, Åsmund Hermansen, Ingeborg Strømseng Sjetne, Marie Hamilton Larsen, Astrid Klopstad Wahl, Dorothea Kohnen, Caryl L Gay, Anners Lerdal, Christine Råheim Borge
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Abstract
Objective: Explore possible associations between healthcare personnel's work-related factors, mental well-being, and health literacy sensitivity. Few studies have investigated these factors. Thus, knowledge about their relationships may enhance healthcare personnel's ability to meet patients' health literacy needs, ultimately improving patient care.
Methods: This cross-sectional survey included interdisciplinary healthcare personnel (N = 288, 75% female, mean age 44 (SD = 11.8)) working in direct patient care at a medium-sized general hospital in Norway. Participants were recruited from May to June 2022 and asked to answer questions regarding work-related factors, mental well-being, and how they follow up on patients' health literacy needs. Data were analyzed using hierarchical multiple regression.
Results: Greater health literacy sensitivity among healthcare personnel is associated with fewer work-related and mental well-being challenges. The work-related factors, teamwork (β = 0.138-0.236, p < 0.05 - p < 0.001) and staffing (β = 0.178, p < 0.01), as well as the mental well-being variables, work engagement (β = 0.179-0.288, p < 0.01 - < 0.001) and depression (β = 0.154, p < 0.05), show statistically significant associations with one or more of the nine health literacy domains.
Conclusion: Work-related factors and mental well-being, particularly work engagement, are associated with healthcare personnel's health literacy sensitivity.
Practice implications: Healthcare organizations should actively enhance healthcare personnel's health literacy resources while ensuring that their efforts to follow up on patients' health literacy needs do not adversely impact the healthcare personnel's work-related factors or mental well-being.
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Efficient and successful modern healthcare depends on a growing group of professionals working together as an interdisciplinary team. However, many forces shape the delivery of healthcare; changes are being driven by the markets, transformations in concepts of health and wellbeing, technology and research and discovery. Dynamic leadership will guide these necessary transformations. The Journal of Healthcare Leadership is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal focusing on leadership for the healthcare professions. The publication strives to amalgamate current and future healthcare professionals and managers by providing key insights into leadership progress and challenges to improve patient care. The journal aspires to inform key decision makers and those professionals with ambitions of leadership and management; it seeks to connect professionals who are engaged in similar endeavours and to provide wisdom from those working in other industries. Senior and trainee doctors, nurses and allied healthcare professionals, medical students, healthcare managers and allied leaders are invited to contribute to this publication
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