Dana Guglielmo, Sicha Chantaprasopsuk, Christi M Kay, Eric T Hyde, Chris Stewart, Julie A Gazmararian
Nutrition Policies, Practices, and Environments in Low-Income Georgia Elementary Schools, United States, 2015-2017
The Journal of school health
us latine adults prefer spanish language healthcare encounter communication high risk health disparitiesm part low organizational health literacy mental health stigma discrimination organizational health literacy includes provision culturally responsive language concordant health information supports good comprehension usefulness could mitigate health disparities conducted pilot study assess commonly provided patient health information handouts depression treatment antidepressant consumer medication information sheets thirty latine adults spanish language preference history depression antidepressant use participated one phone interview descriptive statistics thematic analysis used assess comprehension usefulness selected sections extracted verbatim documents overall 83 n 25 participants reported sections easy understand 97 n 29 said useful yet responses openended questions 53 n 16 participants revealed confusing terminology least one section 10 n 3 expressed concerns misunderstood idiomatic phrase reinforcing mental health stigma seriousness organizational health literacybased issues identified previous studies require government health service organizations make necessary timely revisions address