Valerie G. Press|Madeleine I. Shapiro|Ainoa Mayo|David Meltzer|Vineet M. Arora
More Than Meets the Eye: Relationship Between Low Health Literacy and Poor Vision in Hospitalized Patients
University of Chicago|University of Chicago|University of Chicago|University of Chicago|University of Chicago
patientcentered care includes involving patients families selfmanagement chronic diseases identifying addressing barriers selfmanagement including related health literacy vision limitations may enhance ones ability selfmanage set brief verbal screening questions bvsq rely sufficient vision assess health literacy developed chew colleagues outpatient setting authors aimed evaluate usefulness tool hospitalized patients determine prevalence poor vision among inpatients prospective study bvsq rapid estimate adult learning medicinerevised realmr among participants sufficient vision 2050 snellen administered general medicine inpatients 893 participants 79 african american 57 female mean age 53 years among 668 participants completed tools proportion low health literacy 38 bvsq versus 47 realmr p 0001 almost one fourth participants insufficient vision participants insufficient vision likely identified low health literacy bvsq compared sufficient vision 59 vs 38 p 001