From: Health literacy in childhood and youth: a systematic review of definitions and models
No | Author | Target group (TG) as expressed by papers | HL definition (Source: primary = by same author as model); secondary = different source) | Primary purpose of study | Context in which or for which developed/tested | Models described specificities of TG | TG participation in development | Empirically tested? |
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Children & Primary and Lower Secondary School Students | ||||||||
1 | Brown et al. [32] Exemplary for the US NHES [37] | Students, grade 5-8, Age 9-13 | Primary (see Table 2) | Operationalization: Conceptual base for measurement tool | (School) health education | Yes | No | Yes |
2 | Paek et al. [28] | Students, grade 7, Age 12-13 | Secondary (WHO, 1998) | Conceptualization; explorative & testing | Health Socialization | Yes | Yes | Yes |
3 | Schmidt et al. [25] | Children, grade 5, 9–13 years | Secondary (Nutbeam, 2008) | Operationalization: Effect model for intervention study | (School) health education | Yes | No | Yes |
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4 | Manganello [21] | Young people, n.s. | Secondary (IOM, 2004) | Conceptualization; Explorative | Health care; Disease prevention | Yes | No | No |
5 | Massey et al. [33] | Young people, aged 13-17 | Primary (see Table 2) | Conceptualization inductive and explorative | Health care system | Yes | Yes | No |
6 | Paakkari & Paakkari [8] | Students, n.s. | Primary (see Table 2) | Conceptualization; theoretical exploration | (School) health education | Yes | No | No |
7 | Rask, Uusiautti, Määttä, [29] | Secondary school students, aged app. 18-20 | Secondary, WHO (1998), as cited by Mancuso (2009) | Conceptualization; inductive | (School) health education | No | Yes | No |
8 | Steckelberg et al. [22] | Students, grade 11, Age 16-18 | Secondary (IOM, 2004) | Operationalization: Effect model for intervention study | School curricula programme | Yes | No | Yes |
9 | Subramaniam et al. [26] | Young people, aged 10-15 | Secondary (NAAL, 2013) | Operationalization: Deductive for intervention testing & evaluation | School health programme | Yes | No | Yes |
10 | Wharf Higgins, Begoray, & MacDonald [27] | Students, grade 10 (Canadian system) | Secondary (e.g. Kickbusch, 2007) | Conceptualization; inductive and testing | School health education | Yes | No | Yes |
11 | Wu et al. [18] | Students, grade 10 (Canadian system) | Primary (see Table 2) | Operationalization: Conceptual base for scale development | School health education | Yes | No | Yes |
Different age groups or considering a life course perspective | ||||||||
12 | General population, empirically tested for young people 17-21. | Secondary (Soellner et al., 2009) | Conceptualization; inductive and testing | Different health related domains | No | No | Yes | |
13 | Mancuso [34] | Population across the life course, n.s. | Primary (see Table 2) | Conceptualization; explorative | Different health related domains | No | No | No |
14 | Martin & Chen [24] | Population across the life course | None stated | Conceptualization; explorative | Impact factors on child health | No | No | No |
15 | Nutbeam [35] | General population, focus upon health education | Primary (see Table 2) | Conceptualization; explorative | Public health; different health related domains | No | No | Yes |
16 | Children at different ages | Secondary (IOM, 2004) | Conceptualization; explorative | Different health related domains | Yes | No | No | |
17 | Soellner et al. [36] DE | General population, including young people | Primary (see Table 2) | Conceptualization; inductive and testing | Different health related domains | No | No | Yes |
18 | Sørensen et al. [10] | Population across the life course, n.s. | Primary (see Table 2) | Conceptualization; explorative & testing | Health care; Disease prevention; Health Promotion | No | No | Yes |
19 | Wolf et al. [23] | Population across the life course, n.s. | Secondary (IOM, 2004) | Conceptualization; Explorative | Health care | No | No | No |
20 | Zarcadoolas, et al. [4] | Population across the life course, n.s. | Primary (see Table 2) | Conceptualization; inductive and explorative | Public Health | No | No | No |
21 | Zeyer & Odermatt [30] DE | Students, n.s | Secondary (HCC-Lab, 2005) | Conceptualization; explorative | (School) health education/biology | No | No | No |