Rapid Estimate of Adolescent Literacy in Medicine

Davis, Terry C.; Wolf, Michael S.; Arnold, Connie L.; Byrd, Robert S.; Long, Sandra; Springer, Thomas P.; Kennen, Estela M.; Bocchini, Joseph A.

doi:10.1037/t76300-000

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“…To assess health literacy, a trained interviewer administered the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine where participants were asked to read a list of healthcare‐related terms aloud (Davis et al, 1993). Pronunciation for each term was evaluated and rated as either correct or incorrect, and participants were classified as demonstrating either low or high health literacy based on their overall score.…”

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Refining teratogen warning symbols for diverse populations

Mayhorn

Goldsworthy

2007

Birth Defects Research

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This effort produced at least two viable alternative symbols that appear to be more effective than the current symbol at communicating both the instruction to not take while pregnant and the consequence that exposure could cause birth defects. Several results varied by participant characteristics. Understanding how members of diverse subpopulations might interact with these warnings should be informative to healthcare professionals.

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Refining teratogen warning symbols for diverse populations

Mayhorn

Goldsworthy

2007

Birth Defects Research

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“…The rapid estimate of adult literacy in medicine (REALM‐66), which has been used previously with hospitalized patients, 13 was used to assess literacy. Personnel with minimal training can administer and score the REALM‐66 in 3 to 5 minutes with a test‐retest reliability of 0.99 14 . The REALM‐66 has excellent correlations (0.88 to 0.97) with 3 other general reading tests, and scores can be transformed into reading grade levels 14,15 …”

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The Roles of Low Literacy and Social Support in Predicting the Preventability of Hospital Admission

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“…Health literacy was assessed prior to administering the questionnaire. The REALM was used in order to assess health literacy 27 because it correlates highly ( r =.88 to .97) with standardized reading tests. Administering the REALM involves having patients read aloud from a 66‐item list of medical terms arranged in increasing order of difficulty.…”

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confidence: 99%