The effect of nurse health literacy interventions on patient health literacy scores in specialty consultations: a quasi-experimental study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patient health literacy (HL) affects health and wellbeing on both individual and population levels. The ability to receive, understand, manage and act upon health information can be positively influenced by nurses' use of HL strategies. This study examined the relationship between nurses' use of a HL checklist (intervention) and before and after patient HL scores, and the effects of frequency and types of strategies used in specialty consultations in Spain.

Methods

This quasi-experimental, non-randomized study used the HLS₁₉-Q12 to calculate HL scores for 149 patients. Calculations were performed both before and after a nursing intervention that consisted of using a HL checklist. Paired samples t-test assessed the difference between patient HL scores pr

SUBMITTER: McCaskill A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11520141 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature