TY - JOUR A1 - Sommoggy, Julia von A1 - Grepmeier, Eva-Maria A1 - Curbach, Janina T1 - Health Literacy-Sensitive Counselling on Early Childhood Allergy Prevention BT - Results of a Qualitative Study on German Midwives Perspectives JF - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health N2 - In Germany, midwives are involved in extensive antenatal and postnatal care. As health professionals, they can play a key role in strengthening health literacy (HL) of parents on how to prevent chronic allergic diseases in their children. The objective of this study is to explore midwives’ perspectives regarding HL-sensitive counselling in early childhood allergy prevention (ECAP). Twenty-four qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with midwives, and data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Only a small number of study participants were aware of HL as a concept. However, most of these use screening and counselling strategies which consider individual information needs and which support parental HL. HL sensitivity in counselling is largely based on the midwives’ “gut feelings” and counselling experience, rather than on formal education. The midwives were largely aware of evidence-based ECAP recommendations; however, allergy prevention was not seen as a stand-alone topic but as part of their general counselling on infant feeding and hygiene. They found parents to be more open to receiving complex prevention information during antenatal counselling. In order to strengthen midwives’ roles in HL-sensitive ECAP counselling, their formal education should provide them with explicit HL knowledge and counselling skills. ECAP should be an inherent part of antenatal care. KW - midwives KW - qualitative methods KW - health professionals KW - allergy prevention KW - health literacy Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-520757 VL - 19 IS - 7 SP - 1 EP - 16 PB - MDPI CY - Basel ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Curbach, Janina A1 - von Sommoggy, Julia A1 - Grepmeier, Eva-Maria T1 - Nachhaltige Gesundheitsversorgung – Gesundheitskompetenz stärken durch Gesundheitsfachkräfte JF - Public Health Forum : Forschung - Lehre - Praxis N2 - Das Gesundheitssystem beeinflusst die Gesundheitskompetenz (GK) und Gesundheitschancen von Patienten. Gesundheitsfachkräfte können die GK von Patienten stärken, indem sie GK-orientierte Beratungsmethoden einsetzen, wie z.B. das Verwenden von einfacher Sprache. Um dieses Potenzial besser zu nutzen, müsste die Ausbildung von Gesundheitsfachkräften zu GK-orientierter Versorgung ausgeweitet werden. Dies zeigt auch eine aktuelle Studie mit Pädiatern und Hebammen im deutschen Versorgungskontext. T2 - Sustainable healthcare – how health professionals strengthen health literacy Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/pubhef-2022-0013 SN - 1876-4851 VL - 30 IS - 2 SP - 105 EP - 107 PB - De Gruyter ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Curbach, Janina A1 - Lander, Jonas A1 - Dierks, Marie-Luise A1 - Grepmeier, Eva-Maria A1 - von Sommoggy, Julia T1 - How do health professionals translate evidence on early childhood allergy prevention into health literacy-responsive practice? BT - A protocol for a mixed-method study on the views of German health professionals JF - BMJ OPEN N2 - Introduction Paediatricians, general practitioners (GPs) and midwives in primary care are important sources of information for parents on early childhood allergy prevention (ECAP). Research has shown that preventive counselling by health professionals can be effective in improving patients' health literacy (HL) and health behaviour. Providing effective advice relies on two factors. First, health professionals need be up-to-date with research evidence on ECAP, to consider popular misconceptions and fears and to translate this knowledge into clear recommendations for parents (knowledge translation). Second, they need to know and apply counselling techniques and create a practice setting which accommodates parental HL needs (health literacy-responsive care). The objective of this study is to explore and assess how German health professionals take up and translate ECAP evidence into appropriate recommendations for parents, how they consider HL in counselling and practice organisation and what barriers and enablers they find in their performance of HL-responsive ECAP. Methods and analysis The study has a sequential mixed-method design, in two phases. In the first phase, qualitative semi-structured expert interviews will be conducted with health professionals (paediatricians, GPs and midwives) at primary care level and professional policy level. Data collection is ongoing until January 2022. In the second phase, based on the qualitative results, a standardised questionnaire will be developed, and pilot-tested in a wider population of German health professionals. The findings of both phases will be integrated. Ethics and dissemination The study has received ethical approval from the Ethics Committee of the University of Regensburg (18-1205-101). The results will be published in international peer-reviewed open access journals and via presentations at scientific conferences. The results will also be shared with German health professionals, decision-makers and potential funders of interventions. KW - FOOD ALLERGY KW - INTERVENTION KW - MINDLINES KW - PERCEPTIONS KW - PERSPECTIVES KW - PHYSICAL-ACTIVITY KW - preventive medicine KW - PRIMARY-CARE KW - public health KW - qualitative research KW - social medicine Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-047733 N1 - Corresponding author: Janina Curbach VL - 11 SP - 1 EP - 8 PB - BMJ ER -