Health literacy mediating the association between health information sources and oral health knowledge among Palestinian adolescent refugees: a cross-sectional study
Different types of health literacy can mediate the association between the number of health information sources and OHK. Functional health literacy is necessary to gain knowledge from multiple sources, but it is insufficient. High communication health literacy fully mediated this association. Strengthening communication skills in the context of health would be highly required to effectively transform accessed information into gained knowledge.
Authors
- Akira Shibanuma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2058-1722)
- Masamine Jimba (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5659-3237)
- Mohammed B A Sarhan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5130-4280)
- Junko Kiriya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6862-7860)
- Rika Fujiya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2318-4419)
- Rita Giacaman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7219-134X)
Institutions
- Chulalongkorn University (TH)
- Keio University Shonan Fujisawa (JP)
- The University of Tokyo (JP)
- Birzeit University (PS)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Oral Health
- Published
- 2025-04-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12903-025-05836-3
- Primary Topic
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science