Health Literacy in Residential Addiction Treatment Programs: Study Protocol of a Cross-Sectional Study in People with Substance Use Disorders
Abstrakt
INTRODUCTION: Health literacy (HL) has increasingly been recognized as an important determinant of individual and population health. We have only limited evidence of health literacy and its predictors in people with substance use disorders or addictive behaviours.
Our aim is to assess the level of health literacy and its relationship with socio-demographic characteristics, self-perceived health indicators, and substance use behaviour in this group of population. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: The conceptual model of health literacy proposed by the European Health Literacy Consortium (HLS-EU Consortium) was followed in this study.
We performed a cross-sectional survey to assess health literacy in people undergoing residential addiction treatment programs in the Czech Republic. Respondents were selected from multiple facilities offering medical detoxification, long-term institutional treatment, or socio-therapeutic care in therapeutic communities.
The respondents' level of health literacy was assessed using the 47-item version of the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q47). The association between health literacy and socio-demographic, health-related, and substance use-related factors will be analyzed using linear regression analysis.
DISCUSSION: We will determine the level of health literacy in people undergoing addiction treatment using the current comprehensive approach to health literacy. Our study investigates the potential risk factors of limited health literacy in this group of population.