Øystein Guttersrud

Datos Biográficos

ID7550050
NOMBREØystein Guttersrud
NOMBRESØystein
APELLIDOGuttersrud
FIRMAGUTTERSRUD Ø
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Oslo
ORCID0000-0001-8771-1021
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS8
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR8
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2014
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Cultural and linguistic appropriateness of the HLS19-Q12 health literacy scale items among people in Norway with a Somali background

    Open AccessKathrine Krüger Østbøll, Øystein Guttersrud et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2026

    Although health literacy (HL) is essential for achieving health equity, limited knowledge exists about HL among migrant populations. The cultural and linguistic appropriateness of existing HL measurement scales is scarce. Hence, the aim of this study was to explore the cultural and linguistic appropriateness of HLS19-Q12 scale items among individuals of Somali background living in Norway. The HLS19-Q12 measure general HL and is a short version of…

  • Measuring navigational and digital health literacy in individuals with long-term conditions

    Open AccessMette Haaland, Hanne S Finbråten et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2026

    Background: Mapping health literacy (HL) enables health information and treatment to align with individuals' preferences and potentially makes healthcare truly person-centered. Without valid and reliable measurement tools however, we risk misreading what people actually need. This study aimed to evaluate two measurement scales developed to assess navigational and digital HL in a population sample of individuals with long-term conditions (LTCs). M…

  • Measuring digital health literacy and its associations with determinants and health outcomes in 13 countries

    Open AccessDiane Levin‐Zamir, Diane Levin-Zamir et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Introduction: Digital health information sources are playing an increasingly prominent role in health promotion, public health and in healthcare systems. Consequently, digital health literacy skills are likewise becoming increasingly important. Methods: -DIGI, applied in the European Health Literacy Survey (2019-2021) of the WHO M-POHL network, analyzing data from 28,057 respondents from 13 countries. The instrument is a modified and extended ver…

  • Associations between digital health literacy and health system navigating abilities among Norwegian adolescents

    Open AccessChristopher Le, Øystein Guttersrud et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    The HLS 19 -DIGI scale is considered a sufficiently unidimensional and valid instrument for measuring DHL in adolescents, which may be a useful tool for health authorities, public health workers, and health service providers. While DHL affects adolescents' abilities to navigate the health system, future research should measure and examine their ability to utilize digital health services, separately

  • HLS19-NAV—Validation of a New Instrument Measuring Navigational Health Literacy in Eight European Countries

    Open AccessLennert Griese, Hanne Søberg Finbråten et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    To manoeuvre a complex and fragmented health care system, people need sufficient navigational health literacy (NAV-HL). The objective of this study was to validate the HLS 19 -NAV measurement scale applied in the European Health Literacy Population Survey 2019-2021 (HLS 19 ). From December 2019 to January 2021, data on NAV-HL was collected in eight European countries. The HLS 19 -NAV was translated into seven languages and successfully applied in…

  • Explaining variance in health literacy among people with type 2 diabetes

    Open AccessHanne Søberg Finbråten, Øystein Guttersrud et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    The independent variables education level, overall health condition and empowerment explained about one-third of the total observed variance in HL

  • Young adolescents’ engagement in dietary behaviour – the impact of gender, socio-economic status, self-efficacy and scientific literacy. Methodological aspects of constructing measures in nutrition li…

    Open AccessØystein Guttersrud, Kjell Sverre PettersonARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2015

    Objective The present study validates a revised scale measuring individuals’ level of the ‘engagement in dietary behaviour’ aspect of ‘critical nutrition literacy’ and describes how background factors affect this aspect of Norwegian tenth-grade students’ nutrition literacy. Design Data were gathered electronically during a field trial of a standardised sample test in science. Test items and questionnaire constructs were distributed evenly across …

  • Improving measurement in nutrition literacy research using Rasch modelling

    Open AccessØystein Guttersrud, Jorån Østerholt Dalane et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2014

    Objective Critical nutrition literacy (CNL), as an increasingly important area in public health nutrition, can be defined as the ability to critically analyse nutrition information, increase awareness and participate in action to address barriers to healthy eating behaviours. Far too little attention has been paid to establishing valid instruments for measuring CNL. The aim of the present study was to assess the appropriateness of utilizing the l…