Views of People With High and Low Levels of Health Literacy About a Digital Intervention to Promote Physical Activity for Diabetes: A Qualitative Study in Five Countries

Alison Rowsell   ^{1, 2 *} , MPhil ;   Ingrid Muller   ^{1, 3 *} , PhD ;   Elizabeth Murray   ^{4 †} , PhD,FRCGP,FRCP (Edin) ;   Paul Little   ³ , FMedSci,FRCGP ;   Christopher D Byrne   ^{5, 6} , PhD,FRCPath,FRCP ;   Kristin Ganahl   ⁷ , MA ;   Gabriele Müller   ⁸ , Dipl.Ing. ;   Sarah Gibney   ⁹ , PhD ;   Courtney R Lyles   ¹⁰ , PhD ;   Antonia Lucas   ¹ , MSc ;   Don Nutbeam   ¹¹ , PhD ;   Lucy Yardley   ¹ , PhD

¹ Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

² Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

³ Primary Care and Population Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

⁴ Research Department of Primary Care and Population Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

⁵ Nutrition and Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

⁶ Southampton National Institute for Health Research, Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

⁷ Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Health Promotion Research, Vienna, Austria

⁸ Centre for Evidence-based Healthcare, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany

⁹ UCD School of Business, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

¹⁰ Division of General Internal Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States

¹¹ Office of the Vice-Chancellor, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

*these authors contributed equally

†deceased