Kathryn Goggins|Kenneth A. Wallston|Lorraine C. Mion|Courtney Cawthon|Sunil Kripalani
What Patient Characteristics Influence Nurses’ Assessment of Health Literacy?
Vanderbilt University Medical Center|Vanderbilt University Medical Center|Vanderbilt University Medical Center|Vanderbilt University Medical Center|Vanderbilt University Medical Center
overestimation patients health literacy skills common among nurses physicians vanderbilt university hospital nurses routinely ask patients 3 brief health literacy screen bhls questions data 2 studies recruited patients vanderbilt university hospitalthe health literacy screening heals study vanderbilt inpatient cohort study vicswere analyzed compare bhls score recorded nurses clinical care score recorded trained research assistants hospitalization logistic regression models determined patient characteristics associated nurses documenting higher health literacy scores research assistants overall majority 60 health literacy scores accurate though nurses recorded meaningfully higher health literacy scores 284 heals patients 356 vics patients heals cohort patients male less education likely higher health literacy scores recorded nurses odds ratio 193 95 confidence interval ci 124 300 080 95 ci 074 088 respectively vics cohort patients older male less education likely higher health literacy scores recorded nurses 101 95 ci 1003 102 149 95 ci 120 184 087 95 ci 083 090 respectively findings suggest health literacy scores recorded nurses male patients patients less education could overestimated thus health care professionals aware tendency verify results routine health literacy screening tests especially certain patient groups