William Byansi, Tyriesa Howard Howell, Lindsey M Filiatreau, Proscovia Nabunya, Nina Kaiser, Erin Kasson, Fred M Ssewamala, Patricia Cavazos-Rehg
Sexual Health Behaviors and Knowledge Among Ugandan Adolescent Girls: Implications for Advancing Comprehensive Sexual Health Education Technology
Child & youth care forum
systems across world developed implemented patient rights policies protect improve providerpatient relationship patient charter ghana developed 2002 improve service quality protect patients rights however yet known whether frontline healthcare delivery read understand contents charter studies explored socioeconomic institutional level factors related awareness knowledge patient rights charter lack literature readability comprehensibility among nurses study assesses nurses knowledge patient rights charter associated literacyrelated factors exploratory crosssectional design quantitative methods used collect data knowledge comprehension readability patient rights charter 205 nurses four district hospitals central region recruited using proportional total enumeration sampling data collected using structured questionnaires processed using spss version 26 online text readability consensus calculator version 20 descriptive inferential statistical analyses performed data presented using simple frequencies readability statistics regression output results show charter written higher reading grade level fleschkincaid grade level 1336 simple measure gobbledygook 1157 colemanliau readability index 142 average reading grade level score 14 gunning fox index 1540 flesch reading ease score 34 show patient charter difficult read require least 14 years education able read 873 nurses able read comprehend charter 83 read frustration level nurses actual comprehension charter significant predictor knowledge charter comprehension patient charter important predictor knowledge results emphasize need enhance readability comprehensibility charter providers hospitals stimulate nurses knowledge charter simplifying charters language deliberately educating nurses content