Andrew L Larsen, John J McArdle, Trina Robertson, Genevieve Dunton
Four Dietary Items of the School Physical Activity and Nutrition (SPAN) Questionnaire Form a Robust Latent Variable Measuring Healthy Eating Patterns
Journal of nutrition education and behavior
sought examine relationship health literacy knowledge disease among patients chronic disease total 653 new medicare enrollees aged 65 years older least one chronic disease 115 asthma 266 diabetes 166 congestive heart failure 214 hypertension completed inperson telephone survey health literacy measured short test functional health literacy adults stofhla demographic information collected inperson survey knowledge disease assessed questions based key elements educational materials telephone survey overall 24 patients inadequate 12 marginal health literacy skills respondents inadequate health literacy knew significantly less disease adequate literacy multivariate analysis indicated health literacy independently related disease knowledge many opportunities improve patients knowledge chronic diseases efforts need consider health literacy skills