LEVEL 4 LEVEL 3 2 LEVEL 1 Areas of Functioning (4 points) (3 points) (2 points) (1 point) Describes the Client’s ability to understand his/her current health status and diagnoses as well as his/her ability HEALTH KNOWLEDGE to comprehend and participate in his/her own health care and treatment. Client needs repeated Client can read some Client can read most basic Client has the capacity to oral instruction to health/prescription health/prescription obtain, process and HEALTH LITERACY understand health information; information; understand information; OR OR health/prescription OR Client may need Client may occasionally information; And Client is Client cannot translate assistance to translate need assistance to able to manage even basic written complicated translate changes in complicated ART without prescription/health prescription/health prescription/health additional assistance. information into daily information into daily information into daily Antiretroviral therapy ART; ART; (ART); OR OR Client is mildly cognitively impaired. Client does not have the capacity to understand basic health or prescription information; OR Client is cognitively impaired. Score:
Areas of Functioning LEVEL 4 (4 points) LEVEL 3 (3 points) 2 (2 points) LEVEL 1 (1 point) HEALTH KNOWLEDGE Describes the Client’s ability to understand his/her current health status and diagnoses as well as his/her ability to comprehend and participate in his/her own health care and treatment. HEALTH LITERACY Score: Client needs repeated oral instruction to understand health information; OR Client cannot translate even basic written prescription/health information into daily Antiretroviral therapy (ART); OR Client does not have the capacity to understand basic health or prescription information; OR Client is cognitively impaired. Client can read some health/prescription information; OR Client may need assistance to translate complicated prescription/health information into daily ART; OR Client is mildly cognitively impaired. Client can read most basic health/prescription information; OR Client may occasionally need assistance to translate changes in prescription/health information into daily ART; Client has the capacity to obtain, process and understand health/prescription information; And Client is able to manage complicated ART without additional assistance.
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