Feasibility Testing of a Health Literacy Intervention With Adolescents and Young Adults in South Africa: The LifeLab Soweto Programme

To ensure the health literacy intervention was contextually relevant, age appropriate, and gender inclusive, a group of 40 adolescents (aged 18-24 years, male, female and non-binary) were recruited from Soweto to firstly identify the health topics that were most pressing in their daily lives. This youth advisory group identified stress as a major challenge impacting physical and mental health, health behaviour and daily functioning. Together with the youth group, researchers from South Africa and the UK worked to co-develop the health literacy intervention that delivers self-directed exploration and learning of how stress impacts health, behaviour and well-being. This manuscript describes how this cocreated intervention was received by a broader range of South African youth who were not involved in the cocreation process.

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Health Expectations
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2024-12-01
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https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.70121
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Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
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To ensure the health literacy intervention was contextually relevant, age appropriate, and gender inclusive, a group of 40 adolescents (aged 18-24 years, male, female and non-binary) were recruited from Soweto to firstly identify the health topics that were most pressing in their daily lives. This youth advisory group identified stress as a major challenge impacting physical and mental health, health behaviour and daily functioning. Together with the youth group, researchers from South Africa and the UK worked to co-develop the health literacy intervention that delivers self-directed exploration and learning of how stress impacts health, behaviour and well-being. This manuscript describes how this cocreated intervention was received by a broader range of South African youth who were not involved in the cocreation process.

Health ExpectationsVol. 27(6)
South African Medical Research Council (ZA), University of the Witwatersrand (ZA), University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (GB), NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre (GB), MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit (GB), University of Southampton (GB)
Wellcome Trust, National Institute for Health and Care Research, European Commission, South African Medical Research Council, National Institute for Health Research Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, Medical Research Council, Erasmus+
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