QuikLitE, a Framework for Quick Literacy Evaluation in Medicine: Development and Validation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A plethora of health literacy instruments was developed over the decades. They usually start with experts curating passages of text or word lists, followed by psychometric validation and revision based on test results obtained from a sample population. This process is costly and it is difficult to customize for new usage scenarios.

Objective

This study aimed to develop and evaluate a framework for dynamically creating test instruments that can provide a focused assessment of patients' health literacy.

Methods

A health literacy framework and scoring method were extended from the vocabulary knowledge test to accommodate a wide range of item difficulties and various degrees of uncertainty in the participant's answer. Web-based tests from Amazon Mechanical Turk

SUBMITTER: Zheng J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6406229 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature