Limited Ability of Three Health Literacy Screening Items to Identify Adult English- and Spanish-Speaking Emergency Department Patients With Lower Health Literacy.

ABSTRACT:

Study objective

Brief, easily administered, and valid health literacy assessment tools are needed to optimize health care delivery in the emergency medicine setting. Three health literacy screening items have been proposed to assess health literacy in outpatient settings. We investigated their ability to identify English- and Spanish-speaking adult emergency department (ED) patients with lower health literacy.

Methods

Participants were Spanish- or English-speaking adult patients randomly selected from 4 geographically spread, US, urban, safety-net EDs. Participants completed the 3 health literacy screening items, as well as the Short Assessment of Health Literacy-Spanish and English (SAHL-S&E). Test performance characteristics, including receiver operating characteristics ar

SUBMITTER: Merchant RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12798898 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature