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| lifeskim:mentions | |
| pubmed:issue |
1
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| pubmed:dateCreated |
2003-10-7
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| pubmed:abstractText |
We describe the development of an abbreviated version of the Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (TOFHLA) to measure patients' ability to read and understand health-related materials. The TOFHLA was reduced from 17 Numeracy items and 3 prose passages to 4 Numeracy items and 2 prose passages (S-TOFHLA). The maximum time for administration was reduced from 22 minutes to 12. In a group of 211 patients given the S-TOFHLA, Cronbach's alpha was 0.68 for the 4 Numeracy items and 0.97 for the 36 items in the 2 prose passages. The correlation (Spearman) between the S-TOFHLA and the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM) was 0.80, although there were important disagreements between the two tests. The S-TOFHLA is a practical measure of functional health literacy with good reliability and validity that can be used by health educators to identify individuals who require special assistance to achieve learning goals.
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| pubmed:language |
eng
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| pubmed:citationSubset |
N
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| pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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| pubmed:month |
Sep
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| pubmed:issn |
0738-3991
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| pubmed:author | |
| pubmed:issnType |
Print
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| pubmed:volume |
38
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| pubmed:owner |
NLM
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| pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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| pubmed:pagination |
33-42
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| pubmed:dateRevised |
2006-11-15
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| pubmed:meshHeading |
pubmed-meshheading:14528569-Adolescent,
pubmed-meshheading:14528569-Adult,
pubmed-meshheading:14528569-African Americans,
pubmed-meshheading:14528569-Age Factors,
pubmed-meshheading:14528569-Drug Therapy,
pubmed-meshheading:14528569-Educational Measurement,
pubmed-meshheading:14528569-Educational Status,
pubmed-meshheading:14528569-Female,
pubmed-meshheading:14528569-Health Education,
pubmed-meshheading:14528569-Humans,
pubmed-meshheading:14528569-Linear Models,
pubmed-meshheading:14528569-Male,
pubmed-meshheading:14528569-Mathematics,
pubmed-meshheading:14528569-Medical Indigency,
pubmed-meshheading:14528569-Middle Aged,
pubmed-meshheading:14528569-Needs Assessment,
pubmed-meshheading:14528569-Questionnaires,
pubmed-meshheading:14528569-Reading,
pubmed-meshheading:14528569-Self Administration,
pubmed-meshheading:14528569-Statistics, Nonparametric,
pubmed-meshheading:14528569-Teaching Materials
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| pubmed:year |
1999
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| pubmed:articleTitle |
Development of a brief test to measure functional health literacy.
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| pubmed:affiliation |
Department of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44109-1998, USA. dwb@po.cwru.edu
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| pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article,
Comparative Study,
Validation Studies
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