Sookyung Kim, Hyeonkyeong Lee, Sanghee Kim, Kyung Hee Lee, Seunghyun Yoo, Jin Eui Hong
Effectiveness of a media literacy-based smoking prevention program in female adolescents
Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.)
clinicians need tool gauge patients ability understand health conditions treatment options shortform test functional health literacy adults stofhla gold standard length prohibitive use clinical settings study seeks validate novel threeitem question set predicting health literacy crosssectional study utilized inperson questionnaire alongside stofhla sample included 2027 english spanishspeaking adults 18 years recruited primary care practices serving lowincome eastern pennsylvania community patients 577 identified hispanic diagnostic accuracy question aggregated scores assessed validated survey calculating area receiver operating characteristic auroc curve questions problems learning help reading domains auroc 066 performed better confident forms question auroc 064 summing three scores resulted even higher auroc curve 071 cronbachs alpha combined items 0696 study results suggest three questions viable options screening health literacy levels diverse patients primary care clinical settings however perform better summed score used individually