Authors
Lisa D Chew, Joan M Griffin, Melissa R Partin, Siamak Noorbaloochi, Joseph P Grill, Annamay Snyder, Katharine A Bradley, Sean M Nugent, Alisha D Baines, Michelle Vanryn
Publication date
2008/5
Journal
Journal of general internal medicine
Volume
23
Pages
561-566
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Description
Objectives
Previous studies have shown that a single question may identify individuals with inadequate health literacy. We evaluated and compared the performance of 3 health literacy screening questions for detecting patients with inadequate or marginal health literacy in a large VA population.
Methods
We conducted in-person interviews among a random sample of patients from 4 VA medical centers that included 3 health literacy screening questions and 2 validated health literacy measures. Patients were classified as having inadequate, marginal, or adequate health literacy based on the Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (S-TOFHLA) and the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM). We evaluated the ability of each of 3 questions to detect: 1) inadequate and the combination of “inadequate or marginal” health literacy …
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