Browsing Naturfagsenteret by Author "Pettersen, Kjell Sverre"
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Nordheim, Lena Victoria; Pettersen, Kjell Sverre; Espehaug, Birgitte; Flottorp, Signe Agnes; Guttersrud, Øystein (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Objectives: Scientific literacy is assumed necessary for appraising the reliability of health claims. Using a national science achievement test, we explored whether students located at the lower quartile on the latent trait ...
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Naigaga, Desire Alice Sandra Mpolampola; Guttersrud, Øystein; Pettersen, Kjell Sverre (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2015)Aims and objectives The aim of this paper is to describe how selected demographic characteristics ‘explain’ the observed variance in the distribution of maternal health literacy estimates in adolescents attending antenatal ...
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Guttersrud, Øystein; Naigaga, Desire Alice Sandra Mpolampola; Pettersen, Kjell Sverre (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2015)Background and Purpose: The purpose of this article is to test the requirement of “local independence” in the newly developed “Maternal Health Literacy” (MaHeLi) composite scale measuring health literacy in pregnant ...
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Finbråten, Hanne Søberg; Guttersrud, Øystein; Nordström, Gun; Pettersen, Kjell Sverre; Trollvik, Anne; Larsson, Bodil Wilde (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background and Purpose: The functional, communicative, and critical health literacy (FCCHL) scale is widely used for assessing health literacy (HL) in people with chronic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes (T2DM). Despite ...
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Guttersrud, Øystein; Pettersen, Kjell Sverre (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)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 ...