Tailoring Educational and Behavioral Interventions to Level of Health Literacy: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: Background: The relative value of universal compared to contingent approaches to communication and behavioral interventions for persons of low health literacy remains unknown. Objective: To examine the effectiveness of interventions that are tailored to individual health literacy level compared to nontailored interventions on health-related outcomes. Design: Systematic review. Data Sources: PubMed and Embase databases. Eligibility Criteria: Studies were eligible if they were in English, used an experimental or observational design, included an intervention that was tailored based on the individual's level of education, health literacy or health numeracy, and had a comparator group in which the intervention was not tailored to individual characteristics. <

SUBMITTER: Schapira MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6124923 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature