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Correction: Measuring digital health literacy and its associations with determinants and health outcomes in 13 countries
Levin-Zamir Diane
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Van den Broucke Stephan
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Bíró Éva
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Bøggild Henrik
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Bruton Lucy
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De Gani Saskia Maria
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Søberg Finbråten Hanne
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Gibney Sarah
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Griebler Robert
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Griese Lennert
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Guttersrud Øystein
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Klocháňová Zuzana
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Kucera Zdenek
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Le Christopher
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Link Thomas
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Mancini Julien
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Miksova Dominika
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Schaeffer Doris
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Ribeiro da Silva Carlota
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Sørensen Kristine
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Straßmayr Christa
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Telo de Arriaga Miguel
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Vrdelja Mitja
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Pelikan Jürgen
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HLS19 Consortium of the WHO Action Network M-POHL
1School of Public Health, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
2Department of Health Education and Promotion, Clalit Health Services, Tel Aviv, Israel
3Psychological Sciences Research Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
4Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
5Public Health and Epidemiology, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
6Department of Health, Dublin, Ireland
7Careum Foundation, Careum Center for Health Literacy, Zurich, Switzerland
8Careum School of Health, Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland
9Department of Health and Nursing Sciences, Faculty of Social and Health Sciences, University of Inland Norway, Elverum, Norway
10Competence Centre Health Promotion and Healthcare, Austrian National Public Health Institute, Vienna, Austria
11School of Public Health, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
12Department of Nursing and Health Promotion, Faculty of Health Sciences, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway
13The Norwegian Centre for Science Education Department, The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
14Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Care and Social Work, Trnava University Trnava, Trnava, Czechia
15Czech Health Literacy Institute, Prague, Czechia
16Department of Community Health, The Norwegian Directorate of Health, Oslo, Norway
17Department of Quality Measurement and Patient Survey, Austrian National Public Health Institute, Vienna, Austria
18Aix Marseille University APHM INSERM, IRD, ISSPAM, SESSTIM, Cancer, Biomedicine & Society Group, Marseille, France
19Direção-Geral da Saúde, Lisbon, Portugal
20Global Health Literacy Academy, Risskov, Denmark
21Católica Research Centre for Psychological, Family and Social Well-Being, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal
22Communication Unit, National Institute of Public Health, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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A Correction on Measuring digital health literacy and its associations with determinants and health outcomes in 13 countries by Levin-Zamir, D., Van den Broucke, S., Bíró, É., Bøggild, H., Bruton, L., De Gani, S. M., Søberg Finbråten, H., Gibney, S., Griebler, R., Griese, L., Guttersrud, Ø., Klocháňová, Z., Kucera, Z., Le, C., Link, T., Mancini, J., Miksova, D., Schaeffer, D., Ribeiro da Silva, C., Sørensen, K., Straßmayr, C., Telo de Arriaga, M., Vrdelja, M., and Pelikan, J., on behalf of the HLS19 Consortium of the WHO Action Network M-POHL (2025). Front. Public Health 13:1472706. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1472706
digital health literacy
eHealth literacy
HLS19
digital health literacy measurement
measurement scale validation
health information technology literacy
M-POHL
section-at-acceptance
Digital Public Health
In the published article, the article title was “HLS19-DIGI - a new instrument for measuring digital health literacy: development, validation and associations with determinants and health outcomes in 13 countries”
The correct title is: “Measuring digital health literacy and its associations with determinants and health outcomes in 13 countries”
In the original published article the corresponding author‘s e-mail was diamos@zahav.net.il
The corrected e-mail is: dlevin-za@univ.haifa.ac.il
A correction has been made to Abstract, Methods
The term “HLS19-DIGI” has been added and the sentence below has been added:
“The instrument is a modified and extended version of the Digital Health Literacy Instrument (DHLI).”
So that the section now reads:
“Methods: Using a concept validation approach, the aim of the study was to validate the digital health literacy measure HLS19-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 version of the Digital Health Literacy Instrument (DHLI).”
In 1. Introduction, 1.1 Existing research and measures of digital health literacy, paragraph 3, “(DHLI)” has been changed to “(Digital Health Literacy Instrument- DHLI)”.
In 1. Introduction, 1.2 Rational for a further developed digital health literacy measure, the header “Rational for developing a new digital health literacy measure” has been changed to “Rational for a further developed digital health literacy measure”.
In 1. Introduction, 1.2 Rational for a further developed digital health literacy measure, paragraph 2, “opportunity to develop and validate a new measure for DHL“ has been changed to “opportunity to further develop and validate a further developed measure for DHL.”
In 1. Introduction, 1.2 Rational for a further developed digital health literacy measure, paragraph 3, “This article is part of a series of papers, introducing new health literacy tools that have been developed, applied, and tested through the HLS19 study (27–30)” has been changed to ”This article is part of a series of papers, introducing health literacy tools that have been developed, applied and tested through the HLS19 study (27-30)”.
In 1. Introduction, 1.2 Rational for a further developed digital health literacy measure, paragraph 3, “The aim of this series is to use the data collected in HLS19 to examine the psychometric properties of the newly developed health literacy tools and different aspects of their validity” has changed to “The aim of this series is to use the data collected in the HLS19 to examine the psychometric properties of the newly or further developed health literacy tools and different aspects of their validity”.
In 2. Materials and methods, 2.1 The HLS19-DIGI instrument, the header has changed from “2.1 Development of the HLS19-DIGI instrument” to “2.1 The HLS19-DIGI instrument”.
In 2. Materials and methods, 2.1 The HLS19-DIGI instrument, paragraph 1, “The DHL instrument developed for the HLS19 survey, named HLS19-DIGI, is based on the DHLI measure (16) but aligned more strongly with the concept and model of general health literacy proposed by the HLS-EU study (27) and promoted by M-POHL” has changed to “The DHL instrument further developed for the HLS19 survey, named HLS19-DIGI, is based on the DHLI measure (16) but aligned more strongly with the concept and model of general health literacy proposed by the HLS-EU study (27), and promoted by M-POHL.
In 2. Materials and methods, 2.1 The HLS19-DIGI instrument, paragraph 1, the citation (16) has been added, so that the sentence reads “Compared to the DHLI (16), the HLS19-DIGI adds the dimension of understanding digitally accessed health information and eliminates the redundancy on the topic of applying health information.”
In 2. Materials and methods, 2.1 The HLS19-DIGI instrument, paragraph 3, the citation (16) has been added, so that the sentence reads “We have adapted, shortened and extended the content of the DHLI tool (16), translated it into several languages and tested it, and this paper reports on the psychometric testing.”
In 4. Discussion, paragraph 2, “This article described the conceptual background, development, and validation of a new instrument to measure DHL at the population level and investigated its determinants and associations with health outcomes “ has changed to “This article described the conceptual background, development, and validation of a further developed instrument to measure DHL at the population level and investigated its determinants and associations with health outcomes.”
In 4. Discussion, 4.1 Limitations, “For some countries, the non-response rates for several items were markedly higher than for other HLS19 measures. this may be partly due to the fact that people cannot evaluate something they do not do in everyday life, namely if they do not use the Internet to search for health information.” has changed to “For some countries, the non-response rates for several items were markedly higher than for other HLS19 measures, which may be partly due to the fact that people cannot evaluate something they do not do in everyday life, namely if they do not use the Internet to search for health information.”
In 5. Conclusions and implications, “A compact, conceptually sound new instrument to measure DHL was validated for 13 languages in 13 countries, showing acceptable psychometric properties.” Has changed to “A compact, conceptually sound instrument to measure DHL was validated for 13 languages in 13 countries, showing acceptable psychometric properties.”
The original version of this article has been updated.
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