Portrait

Nicola Häberle studied Health Education (B.Sc., M.Sc.) at the University of Education in Freiburg. She has been a research assistant at the Freiburg Research Center for Occupational Sciences (FFAW GmbH) since 2018. In this context, the recording of mental stress and strain at work is of interest.

In cooperation with the Freiburg University of Education, Ms Häberle is taking part in the ChEG doctoral program. Her doctoral project focuses on organizational health competence.

Nicola Häberle has been a member of the German Society for Medical Sociology e.V. (DGMS) since 2018 and a member of the German Network for Health Literacy e.V. (DNGK) since 2020.

Topic of the doctorate

Organizational health literacy in German hospitals. Awareness and degree of implementation - an empirical study.

Background

The promotion of health literacy in Germany involves science, politics and practice and requires the integration of different actors in the process. In this context, the focus is placed on hospitals that promote health literacy. The Institute of Medicine's concept of Health Literate Health Care Organizations (Brach et al., 2012) describes organizational strategies for consolidating or further developing sufficient organizational health literacy.

Aim

To disseminate and promote the concept of organizational health literacy in German hospitals.

Method

A quantitative, nationwide hospital survey is conducted to examine the awareness and degree of implementation of the 10 characteristics of health literacy-promoting organizations. An in-depth survey of hospitals will examine organizational health literacy in the context of patient- and resource-oriented care.

Publications

Häberle N, Lander J, Dierks M-L, Bitzer EM (2024). Organizational health literacy in German hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic - results of a cross-sectional study among hospital managers. Prev Gesundheitsf https://doi.org/10.1007/s11553-024-01128-w

Häberle N, Lander J, Dierks ML and Bitzer EM (2024). Organizational health literacy in German hospitals: a cross-sectional survey among hospital managers. BMC Health Services Research (2024) 24:1227. doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-11649-x

Rathmann K, Münch I, Fischbock N, Häberle N, László E, Bitzer EM, Dierks M-L, Schaefer C (2024). Developing and implementing health literacy in healthcare: Needs and challenges for quality management. Qualitas 02/24. p 27-29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43831-024-0184-9

Häberle N, Bitzer E M, Dierks M-L (2023). Organizational health literacy in German hospitals. Needs, barriers and developments in the COVID-19 pandemic: results of an online survey of hospital management. Healthcare 2023; 85(08/09): 775 - 775. doi:10.1055/s-0043-1770478

Fischbock N, Häberle N, Silke M (2022, August): Health professions and (organizational) health literacy. Workshop as part of the summer school on chronic diseases and interdisciplinary health literacy research, Hanover, 02.08.2022.

Häberle N (2022, August): Organizational health literacy in German hospitals. Awareness and degree of implementation - results of the pretest. Poster presentation at the Summerschool chronic diseases and interdisciplinary health literacy research, Hanover, 01.08.2022.

Häberle N, Bitzer E M, Dierks M-L (2022): Organizational health literacy in German hospitals. Awareness and degree of implementation - results of the pretest. Poster presentation as part of the symposium "Health literacy between science and practice" at Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hanover, 15.09.2022.

Häberle N Oppermann L (2022, August): Quantitative facets of health literacy - using the example of OGK & BGK. Workshop as part of the summer school chronic diseases and interdisciplinary health literacy research, Hanover, 01.08.2022.

Häberle N, Silke M, Fischbock N (2022). The contribution of health professionals to the promotion of a health literate organization. Healthcare 2022; 84: 852 DOI 10.1055/s-0042-1753950

Häberle N, Lincke HJ, Nübling M (2019). Measures based on the measurement of psychological stress using the COPSOQ in the school setting. Which facilitating and inhibiting factors exist in the process - a mixed methods analysis. In: Joint annual conference of the German Society for Medical Sociology (DGMS) and the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP). "New ideas for better health". Düsseldorf: Georg Thieme Verlag KG (The health care system).

Lincke HJ, Häberle N, Lindner A, Nolle I, Vomstein M, Haug A, Kranich J, Nübling M (2020). Measuring emotional-affective attitudes towards work: the Work Engagement Scale in the COPSOQ. In: Stößel U, Reschauer G and Michaelis M (eds.). Occupational medicine in the health service. Volume 33. edition 650. Freiburg: FFAS Freiburger Forschungsstelle Arbeits- und Sozialmedizin, pp. 175-187.

Lincke HJ, Häberle N, Lindner A & Nübling M (2021). Analysis of sexual harassment at the workplace in the risk assessment of mental stress. Zentralblatt für Arbeitsmedizin, Arbeitsschutz und Ergonomie, 10(4), 482. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40664-021-00428-8

Lindner A, Lincke HJ, Vomstein M, Nolle I, Häberle N, Haug A & Nübling M (2021). Risk assessment of mental stress in the pandemic - analyses with the Covid-19 add-on module of the COPSOQ. In U. Stößel, G. Reschauer, & M. Michaelis (Eds.), Occupational medicine in the health service (vol. 34) (pp. 182-200). Freiburg: Edition FFAS.