Strengthening Health Literacy Through Structured Sessions for Non-Communicable Diseases in Low-Resource Settings: The Learning Nest Model.

Health literate self-management education is at stake for the prevention and management of non-communicable diseases in low resources settings and countries. Here we describe the Learning Nest in Ordinary Context (NA-CO in French, aiming at the structuring of health education programs at the micro- (education sessions) and the meso-levels (adapted to context). The Learning Nest model was designed based on a combination on health literacy principles and on studies conducted with vulnerable people with non-communicable diseases.

Health literacy in context: struggling to self-manage diabetes - a longitudinal qualitative study.

Objectives: Considering health literacy needs is a key component of health services responsiveness to diabetes self-management among vulnerable individuals. The purpose of this qualitative study was to provide a detailed analysis of the health literacy of people with type 2 diabetes in relation to their daily self-care practices.

Design: Nested qualitative study in the ERMIES randomised controlled trial testing a 2-year structured care in type 2 diabetes.

Characterisation of health literacy strengths and weaknesses among people at metabolic and cardiovascular risk: Validity testing of the Health Literacy Questionnaire.

Objectives: Health literacy refers to the ability of individuals to gain access to, use, and understand health information and services in order to maintain a good health. The assessment of health literacy profiles in a population is potentially crucial to respond to health needs. The Health Literacy Questionnaire explores nine dimensions of health literacy and has been shown to display robust psychometric properties.

[Analysis of trainers’ « effective practice » in patient therapeutic education].

Introduction : development of Therapeutic Patient Education (TPE) incites healthcare professionals to introduce in their pratices an educational dimension. Objective : existing few works on the « effective » practices of the TPE trainers, this exploratory research aims at giving a perspective on what cancharacterize their pratices in teaching situation. Method : by taking support on the workson teaching pratices observation in Educational sciences, several sessions of TPE were observed, recorded and analysed by focusing on the forms and the contents of the verbal interactions near the trainers.