Functional health literacy in a group of Turkish patients: A pilot study

Bilgel, Nazan; Sarkut, Pınar; Bilgel, Halil; Özçakır, Alis

doi:10.1080/23311886.2017.1287832

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“…In Turkey, Ozdemir et al (23) in a study, it was reported that the internal consistency coefficient of 0.70. In the study of Bilgel et al (24), it was reported that the internal consistency coefficients varied between 0.77-0.89 in the subdomains of the scale.…”

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Health Literacy Assessment Tool related to Antenatal Care (HLAT-ANC) for Pregnant Women: A Methodological Research from Turkey

EMİRAL¹,

Ünsal

Arslantaş

2022

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Objectives: It is important to provide adequate antenatal care (ANC) for the lowest maternal-fetal complications in pregnancy. The increase in the level of health literacy increases the quality of the ANC, compliance with the follow-up.To develop a tool to evaluate health literacy (HL) levels of pregnant women in antenatal care (ANC). Method: This study is methodological research conducted between 15.02.2016-01.07.2018. "Health Literacy Assessment Tool related to Antenatal Care (HLAT-ANC)" was developed. Its validity-reliability was tested by item analysis, exploratory factor analysis (EFA), concurrent criterion validity, intergroup dissociation, and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and determination of the Kuder-Richardson-20 (KR-20) coefficient. Results: The discrimination coefficients of the items in HLAT-ANC varied between 0.20-0.57 and factor loads between 0.34-0.85. It was determined that HLAT-ANC has KR-20≥0.85 in each subdomain. The scores of fit criteria obtained in the confirmatory factor analysis were within acceptable limits. Conclusion: HLAT-ANC was found to be a valid and reliable scale.

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Health Literacy Assessment Tool related to Antenatal Care (HLAT-ANC) for Pregnant Women: A Methodological Research from Turkey

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Arslantaş

2022

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“…21,22 The most popular ones are the European HL Survey, TOFHLA, REALM, NVS and all of them were translated into Turkish. [23][24][25] However, almost all of them take more than 5 minutes of time to apply and in daily practice, family physicians usually do not have that much time to spare for application of the scales. Considering this, in the USA, some practical tools were developed for primary care physcians in order to identify the low HL level of the patients and to intervene them in the clinical settings (Figure 1.…”

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Why considering “health literacy” level is important for Family Physicians?

Kendir

Vega

Kartal

2019

Turkish Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care

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Family physicians are challenged with complicated cases every day, on some occasions; these circumstances get more difficult as a result of lack of compliance or poor communication between the patients and health care providers. Today, it is know that health literacy level of the individuals affect how patients interact with their care provider and their compliance to the treatment.Low health literacy levels are not exclusive to a particular region on the globe; reports show that 30% of the European has inadequate literacy level, and 64.6% in Turkey have low or problematic health literacy. Family physicians have a crucial role in identifying patients with low health literacy level and improve it to adequate level. Even though the limited time, work overload are some possible barriers for family physicians, a number of easy-to-use methods are developed to overcome some of these problems in primary care. Red flags have been identified to help family physicians to quickly identify the patients with low health literacy level. After that, in order to provide better communication, following strategies can be used are use of plain language, teach-back, ask me three questions, chunk and check, visual aids & written materials. Increasing health literacy can improve the health and well-being of the population and can also decrease the necessary time with patients to solve problems and prevent unnecessary repetitive attendance to primary health care services.

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Functional health literacy in a group of Turkish patients: A pilot study

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Health Literacy Assessment Tool related to Antenatal Care (HLAT-ANC) for Pregnant Women: A Methodological Research from Turkey

Health Literacy Assessment Tool related to Antenatal Care (HLAT-ANC) for Pregnant Women: A Methodological Research from Turkey

Why considering “health literacy” level is important for Family Physicians?

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