ReviewPatient education and counseling2015
State of the science of health literacy measures: Validity implications for minority populations.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Validity arguments for patient-reported outcomes: justifying the intended interpretation and use of data.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2021Article
- Health literacy and health outcomes in patients with low back pain: a scoping review.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2021Article
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- Medication Competence, Numeracy, and Health Literacy.Health literacy research and practice · 2019Article
- Health Literacy and Income Mediate Racial/Ethnic Asthma Disparities.Health literacy research and practice · 2019Article
- Use of nutritional information: analysing clusters of consumers who intend to eat healthily.Journal of nutritional science · 2019Article
- Low health literacy: Implications for managing cardiac patients in practice.The Nurse practitioner · 2018Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo review the evidence supporting the validity of health literacy (HL) measures for ethnic minority populations.
methodsPubMed, CINAHL, and PsycINFO databases were searched for HL measures between 1965 and 2013.
resultsA total of 109HL measures were identified; 37 were non-English HL measures and 72 were English language measures. Of the 72 English language measures, 17 did not specify the racial/ethnic characteristic of their sample. Of the remaining 55 measures, 10 (18%) did not include blacks, 30 (55%) did not include Hispanics, and 35 (64%) did not include Asians in their validation sample. When Hispanic and Asian Americans were included, they accounted for small percentages in the overall sample. Between 2005-2013, a growing number of REALM and TOFHLA translations were identified, and new HL measures for specific cultural/linguistic groups within and outside the United States were developed.
conclusionsWhile there are a growing number of new and translated HL measures for minority populations, many existing HL measures have not been properly validated for minority groups. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: HL measures that have not been properly validated for a given population should be piloted before wider use. In addition, improving HL instrument development/validation methods are imperative to increase the validity of these measures for minority populations.
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