%0 Journal Article
%T Assessment of Organizational Health Literacy in a Group of Public, Private and University Hospitals in Istanbul
%A Omer ATAC
%J -
%D 2019
%X The aim of our study was to investigate and compare organizational health literacy in a group of public, private and university hospitals in Istanbul. This cross-sectional study was conducted in a group of hospitals (n=30) in Istanbul, Turkey. An Organizational Health Literacy Observation (OHLO) form was filled for each of the 30 hospitals (10 public, 10 university and 10 private hospitals) by researchers. Six managers from each hospital (n=180) filled the Turkish version of The Health Literate Health Care Organization 10 item Questionnaire (HLHO-10) during face-to-face OHLO and HLHO-10 scores were highest in private hospitals and lowest in university hospitals, but the difference between the hospitals was not statistically significant. (p=0.18 and p = 0.45 respectively). There was a positive correlation between observation (OHLO) scores and manager evaluation (HLHO-10) scores in private hospitals and this correlation is statistically significant (r = 0.668, p=0.035). There was a negative correlation in the public and university hospitals. However the correlation coefficient was not statistically significant (r=-0.310, p=0.384 and r=-0.118, p=0.746 respectively). According to mean scores of HLHO-10 items, "Provide access" has the highest score. "Integration", "High-risk" and "Costs" followed this item. "Provide Access" has the highest score in both university and public hospitals and ¡°Costs¡± got the highest score in private hospitals. When the differences between hospitals for each item of the HLHO-10 are analyzed, the "Health literacy skills range" and "Costs" items were found to be statistically significant (¡°p¡± values= 0.011 and 0.018 respectively). Post hoc analyses indicated that there was a significant difference between public and private hospitals for the ¡°Health literacy skills range¡± item while the difference between university and private hospitals was significant for the ¡°Costs¡± item. Private hospitals got the highest and university hospitals the lowest mean scores for both of the OHLO and HLHO-10 questionnaires. The high literacy of the public hospitals for individualized health information and the private hospitals¡¯ about out-of-pocket payments are normal and expected findings
%K Sa£¿l£¿k okuryazarl£¿£¿£¿
%K Kurumsal sa£¿l£¿k okuryazarl£¿£¿£¿
%K Sa£¿l£¿k okuryazar£¿
%U http://dergipark.org.tr/jhesp/issue/39338/437459