CORRECTION article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1691501
Correction: Disaster Health Literacy – Development and Validation of a Short Measurement Instrument in German to Supplement the HLS19 Instruments
Provisionally accepted
Michael Ewers1*
Joachim Beckert1
Lennert Griese2Michael Köhler1Anita Prasser1Himal Singh2Doris Schaeffer2- 1Institute of Health and Nursing Science, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- 2School of Public Health, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
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Correction on: Ewers M, Beckert J, Griese L, Köhler M, Prasser A, Singh H, Schaeffer D (2025): Disaster Health Literacy - development and validation of a short measurement instrument in German to supplement the HLS19 instruments. Frontiers in Public Health 13: 1589705. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1589705 Text correction Adding/removing text One of the authors we quoted in our article pointed out that we did not quote his definition of "Disaster Literacy" in full or quoted them from the wrong place in his text, which, in his view, could lead to misunderstandings. In addition, we incorrectly stated the number of items in his instrument (Disaster Literacy Scale) – we stated 84 (before validation), but there are actually 61 items (after validation). He therefore insists that the information about his instrument in our text be corrected. A correction has been made to the section: 3. Results, 3.1 Scoping Review, paragraph 5; page 7, line 249-252 and 254 (the corrected sections have been highlighted): By contrast, Çalışkan et al. defined "Disaster Literacy" based on a systematic literature review [11] as an "individuals' capacity to access, understand, appraise, and apply disaster information to make informed decisions and to follow instructions in everyday life concerning mitigating/prevention, preparing, responding, and recovering/rehabilitation from a disaster in order to maintain or improve quality of life during the life course" [34] (p. 2). Based on this definition they developed a complex 16-Matrix integrative conceptual model and a self-report measurement tool for Turkey, the so-called "Disaster Literacy Scale" (DLS). This tried-and-tested instrument has 61 items and has, to our knowledge, so far been used with different populations but only in this specific cultural context [34,55,56]." The original version of this article has been updated.
Keywords: Disaster & risk management, Health Literacy, content validity (MeSH), Face validity, Disaster Health Literacy
Received: 23 Aug 2025; Accepted: 16 Sep 2025.
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* Correspondence: Michael Ewers, michael.ewers@charite.de
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