African American Parents'/Guardians' Health Literacy and Self-Efficacy and Their Child's Level of Asthma Control

Healthcare providers' perspectives on parental health literacy and child health outcomes among Southeast Asian American immigrants and refugees

“…The findings also supported the addition of important variables such as the parent's own trauma and engagement with the healthcare system to the model. These findings are congruent with some of the findings in Wood, Price, Dake, Telljohann, and Khuder (2010) regarding the relations between parental health literacy and children with asthma.…”

Health literacy and asthma

“…A total of 13 articles were thus identified, and the main findings of these articles are summarized in Table I. [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] The studies included in these articles differ with regard to the instrument used to assess HL, the thresholds used to define categories of HL, and the variables included in multivariate analyses.…”

“…Conversely, 2 larger cross-sectional studies found no association between limited parental HL and health care use (ie, preventive medicines, ED visits, or hospitalizations) or child's asthma control, although parents with limited HL were more likely to perceive greater asthma burden and believe that their children were sicker, to report poorer interactions with their child's provider, to be more worried about their child's health, to report lower asthma-related quality of life, and to have lower perceived efficacy expectations to manage their child's asthma than parents with adequate HL. 27,28 Few studies have examined HL and asthma outcomes in the elderly. In a cross-sectional study of older adults with asthma, patients with low reading skills were more likely to have erroneous asthma beliefs.…”

Knowledge and Perceptions of Health Literacy Among Nursing Professionals

“…It is essential that nursing's general understanding of health literacy be explored. To date, nurse researchers have examined the prevalence of low health literacy in an urban primary care clinic (Artinian, Lange, Templin, Stallwood, & Hermann, 2002), knowledge of health literacy among students and health care providers (Jukkala et al, 2009), the readability of patient education materials (Wilson, 2009), the information needs of mothers over age 35 years (Carolan, 2007), predicting completion of advance directives (Campbell, Edwards, Ward, & Weatherby, 2007), HIV medication adherence (Holzemer et al, 2006), and the self-efficacy of parents=guardians of African American children with asthma within the context of health literacy (Wood, Price, Dake, Telljohann, & Khuder, 2010). However, thus far, no studies have been conducted to assess the knowledge of nursing professionals across educational preparation, role, or practice specialty, regarding nursing knowledge of health literacy, its impact on patient outcomes, or nursing use of resources to facilitate communication with individuals with low health literacy.…”