Table 2.
Summarized results of the reviewed studies.
| Reference | Summarized Results | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Roles of nurses in health literacy | Determinant factors | Outcomes | |
| Coşkun and Bebiş (11) | Nurses play a role in facilitating health promotion to increase health literacy and positive health-related lifestyle behaviors | Gender, BMI, family structure, parental knowledge status, income, smoking habit, alcohol drinking habit, history of chronic disease, drug use, and perception of health status | • Health literacy has an impact on increasing the achievement of positive health behaviors. • The ability to find information and media sources related to health increases patient health literacy |
| Kim and Oh (28) | Nurses facilitate health literacy to carry out health promotion by encouraging the use of social media in seeking information and then increasing information-seeking behavior and self-care agency | Age, gender, education, religion, duration of internet use, and health status | • Electronic health literacy has a significant relationship with health promotion behavior in students. The higher the health literacy, the better the health promotion behavior |
| Mosley and Taylor (12) | Nurses must have the ability to provide care to patients with low health literacy. Therefore, health literacy education in the nursing process is essential | Age, language, language ability, and risk groups | • Health literacy increases the ability to use social media, online health information-seeking behavior, self-care agency, and health behavior. • Health literacy improves the patient's ability to interpret the disease process, manage their disease, and make decisions regarding health issues. |
| Shiferaw et al. (29) | The nursing profession must strengthen health literacy skills by increasing access to technology. In the clinical setting, the role of nurses is to improve patients' literacy skills | Gender, domicile, and students' registration years | • Health literacy impacts students' academic abilities or grade point averages. • Meanwhile, the ability to access the internet used to obtain information determines health literacy in college students |
| Wittenberg et al. (20) | Providing health literacy support to patients is one of the core skills of nursing. Nurses must have good communication skills, specifically in assessing the level of health literacy. This is a strategy to support health literacy | Age, ethnicity, education, income, language, job position, demographic situation, and work experience | Health literacy impacts patient health support and health quality |
| Ayaz-Alkaya and Terzi (30) | Nurses act as care providers by paying attention to health literacy needs based on knowledge and experience. Every nurse educator must emphasize the importance of health literacy and patient empowerment | Age, gender, family income, social insurance, domicile, history of chronic disease, drug consumption, visual and hearing impairment, and internet use | Health literacy has an impact on increasing patient empowerment. Nurses must have optimal health literacy skills to deal with rapid changes in the health care system |
| Nesari et al. (19) | Nurses play a role in improving public health literacy practices, such as understanding health information and making decisions about patients' health | Age, work experience, gender, and scope of the work area | • Efforts to increase equity in health literacy are significant in supporting the quality of patient care. • Health literacy practices facilitate effective communication between healthcare professionals and the public |
| Turan et al. (31) | Nurses can use electronic health literacy and healthy lifestyle behaviors to improve the quality of care by supporting teaching methods and nursing role models. Health literacies are essential to support patients and families in accessing and using health information to improve patient safety and quality of care | Age, health insurance, expenses, health status, and internet usage | • Health literacy is essential in promoting students' healthy lifestyle behavior. • Health literacy positively affects interpersonal relationships, stress management, positive life perspective, spiritual health, and lifestyle. |
| Koduah et al. (32) | Nursing practice must integrate health literacy knowledge professionally by considering characteristics, social and cultural values, nursing education, and experience | Educational and professional practice factors: nursing specialization, work experience, employment status, length of study, and higher education | Factors of personal characteristics, social and cultural values, nursing education, and experience have a relationship or connection with health literacy knowledge in nursing professional practice |
| Munangatire et al. (33) | Nurses play an educator role in ensuring patients understand the importance of health literacy and practice to increase their health quality. In the educational setting, the educators ensure that every nurse student understands the health literacy that will impact patients | Age, marital status, gender, and medical history | • Health literacy skills can transfer to students' professional careers as nurses • Nursing students understand health literacy concepts well, but they must all try to translate this understanding into health literacy skills |
| Yusefi et al. (34) | Nurses play a role in increasing patient health literacy, which affects their quality of life. Health literacy possessed by nurses has an impact on their professional ability to work and decide on a problem | Age, work experience, and employment status | Health literacy's dimensions closely related to the quality of life include access to information, and the ability to read, understand, and use health information |
| Kim and Oh (35) | Nurses act as health literacy educators for patients by helping to improve their literacy skills that support self-care practices | Age, knowledge, education, communication, patient attitude, and family support | Patient health literacy will increase with the support of effective communication and health education |
| Yang (36) | Nurses play a role in developing health literacy competencies to improve patient-centered care. Education programs should emphasize the integration of health literacy into the nursing school curriculum | Education level, prior health literacy knowledge, and health literacy competencies | Health literacy skills significantly affect the caring aspect of patients |