Digital Health Applications for Mental Illness in Primary Care (completed)
In April 2020, the ‘Chronic Diseases and Health Literacy (ChEG)’ doctoral programme was launched at Hannover Medical School with the aim of creating theoretical concepts and empirical foundations to strengthen health literacy. As part of this programme, a research project focusing on digital health literacy is being supervised at the [HC]².
The care of people with mental illnesses in Germany is characterised by long waiting times for treatment places, among other things. Digital health applications (DiGA) offer an opportunity to bridge waiting times and reduce gaps in care for patients. At the same time, these are complex and interactive interventions that require users to have both health and digital expertise. The aims of the PhD project are to determine the role of primary care providers' assessment of digital health literacy in prescribing DiGA and how patients feel empowered to use DiGA.
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Project Duration
April 2020 to April 2023
Presentations
Competent and informed?! The interaction of (digital) health literacy and health information behaviour (2021)
Posselt, J., Giesler, P., Link, E., & Baumann, E. (2021, November). Kompetent und informierter?! Das Zusammenwirken von (digitaler) Gesundheitskompetenz und Gesundheitsinformationshandeln. Presentation at the 6th Annual Conference of the DGPuK Health Communication Specialist Group, November 17th to 19th, 2021, Hohenheim, Germany [digital].
Health literacy + media literacy = digital health literacy? A concept and its interdisciplinary roots (2021)
Riesmeyer, C., Link, E., Posselt, J., & Baumann, E. (2021, May). Health literacy + media literacy = digital health literacy? A concept and its interdisciplinary roots. Presentation at the 71st annual meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA), May 27th to 31st, 2021 [digital].
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