Health literacy is a significant factor in patients’ health status and outcomes. The external factors of demographics, educational attainment, and health knowledge have not been thoroughly explored. The journal reviews the proposed model of health literacy as a combination of health knowledge, educational attainment and cognitive ability and tests its relation to measures of health literacy taking into account demographic variability.
This was a quantitative study with 359 volunteer English and Spanish speaking participants. Participants were part of a larger study of a new computer- administered measure of health literacy where the completed a series common intellectual, academic skill and health literacy measures. The principal factor …show more content…
Health literacy and academic skills are acquisition of formal schooling, reading, writing, and arithmetic. Academic skills were assessed through reading comprehension. The subsets included basic problem solving and evaluating reading passages. While health knowledge was through a health questionnaire comprised of 15 questions about disease risk factor or treatment of specific drugs for a disease.
The sample intentionally included participants from a wide range of ages. I believe this weakened the strength of the study because the variability of index factors too broad and made it difficult to draw conclusions about the specified population. Also, the results of the study highlight the importance of use of measures in research because this analysis had an operationalized definition of ‘health literacy’. The term ‘health literacy’ has evolved can be hard to distinguish form generalized concept of literacy.
This article has real life application because it looked at primary structural factors which effect individual health promotion. A person’s income or educational attainment can determine what health services they have access too. Health-related knowledge can improve health status through targeted
This was a quantitative study with 359 volunteer English and Spanish speaking participants. Participants were part of a larger study of a new computer- administered measure of health literacy where the completed a series common intellectual, academic skill and health literacy measures. The principal factor …show more content…
Health literacy and academic skills are acquisition of formal schooling, reading, writing, and arithmetic. Academic skills were assessed through reading comprehension. The subsets included basic problem solving and evaluating reading passages. While health knowledge was through a health questionnaire comprised of 15 questions about disease risk factor or treatment of specific drugs for a disease.
The sample intentionally included participants from a wide range of ages. I believe this weakened the strength of the study because the variability of index factors too broad and made it difficult to draw conclusions about the specified population. Also, the results of the study highlight the importance of use of measures in research because this analysis had an operationalized definition of ‘health literacy’. The term ‘health literacy’ has evolved can be hard to distinguish form generalized concept of literacy.
This article has real life application because it looked at primary structural factors which effect individual health promotion. A person’s income or educational attainment can determine what health services they have access too. Health-related knowledge can improve health status through targeted