Development and Validation of the Spanish Numeracy Understanding in Medicine Instrument.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Spanish-speaking population in the U.S. is large and growing and is known to have lower health literacy than the English-speaking population. Less is known about the health numeracy of this population due to a lack of health numeracy measures in Spanish.

Objective

we aimed to develop and validate a short and easy to use measure of health numeracy for Spanish-speaking adults: the Spanish Numeracy Understanding in Medicine Instrument (Spanish-NUMi).

Design

Items were generated based on qualitative studies in English- and Spanish-speaking adults and translated into Spanish using a group translation and consensus process. Candidate items for the Spanish NUMi were selected from an eight-item validated English Short NUMi. Differential Item Functioning (DIF) w

SUBMITTER: Jacobs EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5071279 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature