Health Literacy as an Essential Component to Achieving Excellent Patient Outcomes

Parnell, Terri Ann; McCulloch, Elizabeth; Mieres, Jennifer H.; Edwards, Fallon

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“…This places more responsibility on health care providers to ensure that patients with limited HL have the right health information to make informed health decisions. Patients with limited HL almost always have difficulty understanding written health information [ 46 , 47 , 48 ] and the inability to read and understand written health information leads to poor health outcomes and reduced quality of patient interactions with service providers [ 29 ]. Therefore, all forms and documents should be designed in a simple and understandable language and made available to clients, and by receiving feedback from clients, ensure that the written materials are easily understood by clients [ 46 ].…”

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Attributes of Organizational Health Literacy in Health Care Centers in Iran: A Qualitative Content Analysis Study

Khorasani

Sany

Mahdizadeh

et al. 2022

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Organizational Health Literacy (OHL) is described as a new concept to remote health organizations to implement practices, policies, and systems that make it easier for patients to use, understand, and navigate health information to take care their own health. In Iran, there is no consensus on the attributes of OHL, and its practical implications and scope have not been evaluated. This manuscript is one of the first attempts to explain the attributes of the OHL in health care centers in Iran. This study is a content analysis survey, which was guided by the attributes of the OHL provided by Brach et al. and 26 semi-structured interviews were conducted with Iranian health professionals and employees of healthcare organizations from June 2020 to January 2021. A data analysis was performed using the MAXQDA 10 software. Across the study, ten sub-themes, 21 subcategories, and 67 codes emerged. The 10 main attributes of OHL were management, integration of health literacy in the organization, workforce, participation, range of HL skills, HL strategies, access, media variety, the role of the organization in crisis, and costs. These attributes may guide the planning of health care centers improvements and have the potential to promote health service reforms and public health policy.

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Attributes of Organizational Health Literacy in Health Care Centers in Iran: A Qualitative Content Analysis Study

Khorasani

Sany

Mahdizadeh

et al. 2022

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“…Concerning the first, patients with limited levels of health literacy tend to retain only half of what is discussed and are not ready to ask questions 45 . Therefore, simple language is recommended, without medical jargon or scientific terms, with patient-mirrored vocabulary and clear, slow speech, with information divided into small parts [46][47][48] .…”

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“…Source: Adapted from Sudore et al46 ; Schillinger et al47 ; Parnell et al48 ; Garcia-Retamero et al52 ; Drake et al60 ; Ridpath et al62 ; Schnitzer et al63 ; Tait et al67 …”

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Aplicação dos fundamentos do letramento em saúde no consentimento informado

Cordeiro

Sampaio

2019

Rev. Bioét.

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Resumo O consentimento informado é necessário para participação voluntária em pesquisas e decisões em saúde. No entanto, as informações devem ser passadas ao paciente ou participante de pesquisa de forma que sejam efetivamente compreendidas. O letramento funcional em saúde deve ser considerado na elaboração dos termos de consetimento, na concepção de materiais gráficos e entrevistas e na comunicação verbal, para que o indivíduo consiga avaliar as informações transmitidas e decidir com autonomia. Assim, este trabalho objetiva identificar entraves à aplicação desses documentos e à sua efetividade, considerando a real compreensão do entrevistado, seja usuário do sistema de saúde ou participante de pesquisa. Para tanto, foi realizada pesquisa bibliográfica sobre o modo como o consentimento informado é apresentado, com base na qual propõe-se roteiro para a elaboração desses documentos tendo em vista os princípios do letramento funcional em saúde.

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Health Literacy as an Essential Component to Achieving Excellent Patient Outcomes

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Attributes of Organizational Health Literacy in Health Care Centers in Iran: A Qualitative Content Analysis Study

Attributes of Organizational Health Literacy in Health Care Centers in Iran: A Qualitative Content Analysis Study

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