OBJECTIVES To evaluate patient attitudes towards literacy screening, agreement between literacy tests, and associations between literacy, informed consent comprehension, and health-related quality of life (HRQL). METHODS Participants completed three literacy tests, read a sample consent form, and reported their HRQL, experiences, and attitudes. RESULTS We enrolled 97 cancer patients, of who...

Patient education and effective communication are core elements of the nursing profession; therefore, awareness of a patient's health literacy is integral to patient care, safety, education, and counseling. Several past studies have suggested that health care providers overestimate their patient's health literacy. In this study, the authors compare inpatient nurses' estimate of their patient's ...

To date, studies have shown mixed results regarding the relationship between health literacy and diabetic control. This study examined diabetes control in a clinic run by an advanced practice pharmacist with prescriptive authority who was aware of patients’ health literacy level. The primary objective of this study was to determine if patients with diabetes who have adequate health literacy ach...

PURPOSE This study investigated the relationship between home literacy experiences and bilingual preschoolers' early literacy outcomes. METHOD Forty-three Puerto Rican mother-child dyads recruited from Head Start programs in central Pennsylvania participated in this study of home literacy experiences and emerging English literacy abilities. The dyads were grouped according to whether the chil...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Few studies have examined health literacy in patients with end stage kidney disease. We hypothesized that inadequate health literacy in a hemodialysis population is common and is associated with poorer access to kidney transplant wait-lists. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS We enrolled 62 Black and White maintenance hemodialysis patients aged 18 to 75. W...

Mathematical Literacy as a new subject in the final three years (grades 10 to 12) of schooling in South Africa is discussed. The discussion is driven by debates and deliberations around the introduction of Mathematical Literacy as they emerged in the public domain and constructs emanating from a diverse field of literature related to both mathematics and mathematical literacy. In particular the...

Psychological literacy, the ability to apply psychological knowledge to personal, family, occupational, community and societal challenges, is promoted as the primary outcome of an undergraduate education in psychology. As the concept of psychological literacy becomes increasingly adopted as the core business of undergraduate psychology training courses world-wide, there is urgent need for the c...

The development of literacy skills in individuals who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) requires the collective efforts of collaborative literacy teams who have expertise in language, literacy, and AAC. Literacy teams responsible for teaching reading and writing skills to students with complex communication needs face many challenges including students who often cannot partic...

An alternative to the common approach to defining concepts is introduced, where the primary goal is to point to what is large and essential in a concept, that is, to its perspective. Based on this new approach, visual literacy is defined as the ability to decode and design implicit information. It is argued that such literacy is no less needed than the common literacy, which is the ability to r...

Literacy is the main key factor of development in the society. It creates an important input in overall development of individual and enables them to realize their socio, economic, political responsibility. In India, the overall literacy rate is 74.04 percent whereas male and female literacy rate is 82.14 percent and 65.46 percent respectively. It shows that more than one-fourth of the country’...