Francisco Soto Más|Carla Cordova|Ambrosia Murrietta|Holly E. Jacobson|Francisco Ronquillo|Deborah L. Helitzer
A Multisite Community-Based Health Literacy Intervention for Spanish Speakers
University of New Mexico|University of New Mexico|University of New Mexico|University of New Mexico|University of New Mexico|University of New Mexico
national action plan improve health literacy emphasizes importance communitybased opportunities education english second language esl programs recommends collaborations among adult literacy esl communities however limited attention given researching effectiveness communitybased interventions combine esl health literacy purpose study explore feasibility using different community settings improving health literacy among adult spanish speakers english language program study used preexperimental single arm pretestposttest design implemented health literacy esl curriculum collaborative established community university researchers participants recruited three distinctive sites health literacy assessed using spanish version test functional health literacy adults tofhla analysis included descriptive pairedgroup test fortynine participants completed intervention posttests 92 retention rate overallall sitesposttest scores significantly improved total tofhla raw numeracy reading comprehension p 00001 similarly three sites yielded significantly better mean differences total tofhla score numeracy reading comprehension significantly improved sites results suggest community sites viable venues delivering health literacylanguage instruction spanish speaking adults study also points community engagement esl programs two essential components effective health literacy interventions among spanish speakers