Health Literacy

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Participatory Process to Engage Appalachian Youth in Reducing Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption. 
  • A health literacy pilot intervention to improve medication adherence using Meducation® technology. 
  • Adequate health literacy is associated with higher heart failure knowledge and self-care confidence in hospitalized patients. 
  • Adherence to Oral Anticancer Therapeutics in the Gynecologic Oncology Population. 
  • Alcohol health literacy in young adults with type 1 diabetes and its impact on diabetes management. 
  • Are Older Adults Ready for Wireless Physical Activity Tracking Devices? A Comparison of Commonly Used Tracking Devices. 
  • Assessment of health literacy and numeracy among Spanish-Speaking parents of young children: validation of the Spanish Parental Health Literacy Activities Test (PHLAT Spanish). 
  • Association of Smartphone Ownership and Internet Use With Markers of Health Literacy and Access: Cross-sectional Survey Study of Perspectives From Project PLACE (Population Level Approaches to Cancer Elimination). 
  • Can this patient read and understand written health information? 
  • Color-coding improves parental understanding of body mass index charting. 
  • Communicating genetic and genomic information: health literacy and numeracy considerations. 
  • Communication Challenges in Neonatal Encephalopathy. 
  • Community-based HCV screening: knowledge and attitudes in a high risk urban population. 
  • Comparison of brief health literacy screens in the emergency department. 
  • Compassionate care: enhancing physician-patient communication and education in dermatology: Part II: Patient education. 
  • Cost-related health literacy: a key component of high-quality cancer care. 
  • Counteracting Health Misinformation: A Role for Medical Journals? 
  • Decision making in advanced heart failure: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. 
  • Differences in osteoarthritis self-management support intervention outcomes according to race and health literacy. 
  • Different Measures, Different Outcomes? A Systematic Review of Performance-Based versus Self-Reported Measures of Health Literacy and Numeracy. 
  • Disease understanding in patients newly diagnosed with atrial fibrillation. 
  • Do diabetic veterans use the Internet? Self-reported usage, skills, and interest in using My HealtheVet Web portal. 
  • Enrollment in prescription drug insurance: the interaction of numeracy and choice set size. 
  • Extending Our Reach for Greater Impact. 
  • Factors associated with health information-seeking in low-income pregnant women. 
  • Financial Toxicity of Cancer Care: It's Time to Intervene. 
  • Glaucoma patient expression of medication problems and nonadherence. 
  • Health Coaching Has Differential Effects on Veterans with Limited Health Literacy and Numeracy: a Secondary Analysis of ACTIVATE. 
  • Health Literacy and Weight Change in a Digital Health Intervention for Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Primary Care Practice. 
  • Health literacy and glaucoma. 
  • Health literacy and injury prevention behaviors among caregivers of infants. 
  • Health literacy and ophthalmic patient education. 
  • Health literacy interventions and outcomes: an updated systematic review. 
  • Healthcare.gov 3.0--behavioral economics and insurance exchanges. 
  • Helping patients decide: ten steps to better risk communication. 
  • Hospital evaluation of health literacy and associated outcomes in patients after acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Improving Medication Adherence in Cardiometabolic Disease: Practical and Regulatory Implications. 
  • Infant Sleep and Parent Health Literacy. 
  • Influence of parental health literacy and dosing responsibility on pediatric glaucoma medication adherence. 
  • Interventions for individuals with low health literacy: a systematic review. 
  • Introducing a health information literacy competencies map: connecting the Association of American Medical Colleges Core Entrustable Professional Activities and Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Common Program Requirements to the Association of College & Research Libraries Framework. 
  • Investigating Health Literacy in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: a Descriptive Review. 
  • Limited health literacy and adverse outcomes among kidney transplant candidates. 
  • Limited health literacy is associated with low glomerular filtration in the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) study. 
  • Low health literacy and health outcomes: an updated systematic review. 
  • Measurement Properties of the CAPACITY Instrument to Assess Perceived Communication With the Health Care Team Among Care Partners of Patients With Cognitive Impairment. 
  • Obesity literacy and culture among African American women in Florida. 
  • Parent health literacy and "obesogenic" feeding and physical activity-related infant care behaviors. 
  • Parental understanding of infant health information: health literacy, numeracy, and the Parental Health Literacy Activities Test (PHLAT). 
  • Readability of patient education materials in ophthalmology: a single-institution study and systematic review. 
  • Reasons for noncompletion of advance directives in a cardiac intensive care unit. 
  • Remote Usability Testing and Satisfaction with a Mobile Health Medication Inquiry System in CKD. 
  • Socioeconomic, Psychosocial and Behavioral Characteristics of Patients Hospitalized With Cardiovascular Disease. 
  • Special Considerations Related to Race, Sex, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status in the Preoperative Evaluation: Part 1: Race, History of Incarceration, and Health Literacy. 
  • The Digital Drag and Drop Pillbox: Design and Feasibility of a Skill-based Education Model to Improve Medication Management. 
  • The Grand Challenges and nursing. 
  • The Role of Mobile Applications in Improving Alcohol Health Literacy in Young Adults With Type 1 Diabetes: Help or Hindrance? 
  • The association of acculturation and health literacy, numeracy and health-related skills in Spanish-speaking caregivers of young children. 
  • The effect of numeracy level on completeness of home blood pressure monitoring. 
  • The healthcare experiences of Koreans living in North Carolina: a mixed methods study. 
  • The influence of health literacy level on an educational intervention to improve glaucoma medication adherence. 
  • The last mile: translational research to improve CKD outcomes. 
  • The role of patient-provider sexual health communication in understanding the uptake of HIV prevention services among Black men who have sex with men. 
  • Toward Ensuring Health Equity: Readability and Cultural Equivalence of OMERACT Patient-reported Outcome Measures. 
  • Translating the hemoglobin A1C with more easily understood feedback: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Understanding the role of numeracy in health: proposed theoretical framework and practical insights. 
  • Usability of a CKD educational website targeted to patients and their family members. 
  • Why Parents Seek Care for Acute Illness in the Clinic or the ED: The Role of Health Literacy. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Lane, Hannah Grace, Medical Instructor in the Department of Population Health Sciences, Population Health Sciences
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma
  • Stinnett, Sandra Sue, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Streilein, Annamarie Faust, Assistant Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Physician Assistant Program
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine