Highlights
- •Since 30 years, child and adolescent health literacy has been addressed in clinical and public health approaches.
- •School-based practices need more evidence to improve health literacy in children and adolescents.
- •Validated, reliable multidimensional health literacy assessment instruments are needed.
Abstract
Purpose
This study aims to investigate the knowledge structure and research trends in child
and adolescent health literacy research over the past 30 years by using network text
analysis.
Method
The study was conducted in four steps: 1) collecting abstracts, 2) keyword extraction
and preprocessing, 3) creation of co-occurrence matrix, and 4) text network analysis.
Results
As a result of the centrality analysis, the upper-ranked core keywords were “health
care,” “health behavior,” “prevention,” “treatment,” and “health promotion.” In contrast
to earlier times, “barrier,” “caregiver,” “school setting,” and “QOL” have recently
emerged as core keywords.
Conclusions
Over the past 30 years, child and adolescent health literacy has been importantly
addressed in both clinical and public health approaches. The results of the current
study provide references for future research in child and adolescent health literacy.
Implication for practice and research
This study suggests the need for additional research on school-based practices that
can improve health literacy and for identifying validated and reliable multidimensional
health literacy assessment instruments.
Keywords
Abbreviations:
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), NTA (Network text analysis), NVS (Newest Vital Sign), QOL (Quality of life), REALM (Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine), WRAT (Wide Range Achievement Test)To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: August 08, 2022
Accepted:
August 1,
2022
Received in revised form:
July 26,
2022
Received:
March 8,
2022
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