Limitations of the S-TOFHLA in measuring poor numeracy: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although the Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (S-TOFHLA) is widely used, misidentification of individuals with low health literacy (HL) in specific HL dimensions, like numeracy, is a concern. We examined the degree to which individuals scored as "adequate" HL on the S-TOFHLA would be considered as having low HL by two additional numerical measures.

Methods

English-speaking adults aged 45-75 years were recruited from a large, urban academic medical center and a community foodbank in the United States. Participants completed the S-TOFHLA, the Subjective Numeracy Scale (SNS), and the Graphical Literacy Measure (GL), an objective measure of a person's ability to interpret numeric information presented graphically. Established cut-points or a median s

SUBMITTER: Housten AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5870805 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature