Hope M. Kincaid, Cathy A Coyne, R. Hamadani, Timothy Friel
BACKGROUND Clinicians need a tool to gauge patients' ability to understand health conditions and treatment options. The Short-form Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (S-TOFHLA) is the gold standard for this, but its length is prohibitive for use in clinical settings. This study seeks to validate a novel three-item question set for predicting health literacy. METHODS This cross-sectional study utilized an in-person questionnaire alongside the S-TOFHLA. The sample included 2027 English- and Spanish-speaking adults (≥18 years) recruited from primary care practices serving a low-income eastern Pennsylvania community. Most patients (57.7%) identified as Hispanic. Diagnostic accuracy of each question and aggregated scores were assessed against the validated survey by calculating the area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) curve. RESULTS Questions in the 'Problems Learning' and 'Help Reading' domains (AUROC 0.66 for each) performed better than the 'Confident Forms' question (AUROC 0.64). Summing all three scores resulted in an even higher AUROC curve (0.71). Cronbach's alpha of the combined items was 0.696. CONCLUSIONS Study results suggest that any of the three questions are viable options for screening health literacy levels of diverse patients in primary care clinical settings. However, they perform better as a summed score than when used individually.
{"title":"Validation of three health literacy screening questions compared with S-TOFHLA in a low-income diverse English- and Spanish-Speaking population.","authors":"Hope M. Kincaid, Cathy A Coyne, R. Hamadani, Timothy Friel","doi":"10.1093/pubmed/fdae035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdae035","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUND\u0000Clinicians need a tool to gauge patients' ability to understand health conditions and treatment options. The Short-form Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (S-TOFHLA) is the gold standard for this, but its length is prohibitive for use in clinical settings. This study seeks to validate a novel three-item question set for predicting health literacy.\u0000\u0000\u0000METHODS\u0000This cross-sectional study utilized an in-person questionnaire alongside the S-TOFHLA. The sample included 2027 English- and Spanish-speaking adults (≥18 years) recruited from primary care practices serving a low-income eastern Pennsylvania community. Most patients (57.7%) identified as Hispanic. Diagnostic accuracy of each question and aggregated scores were assessed against the validated survey by calculating the area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) curve.\u0000\u0000\u0000RESULTS\u0000Questions in the 'Problems Learning' and 'Help Reading' domains (AUROC 0.66 for each) performed better than the 'Confident Forms' question (AUROC 0.64). Summing all three scores resulted in an even higher AUROC curve (0.71). Cronbach's alpha of the combined items was 0.696.\u0000\u0000\u0000CONCLUSIONS\u0000Study results suggest that any of the three questions are viable options for screening health literacy levels of diverse patients in primary care clinical settings. However, they perform better as a summed score than when used individually.","PeriodicalId":509802,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Health","volume":"22 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140714367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-09DOI: 10.1007/s10389-024-02239-6
A. Masini, A. Salussolia, Alessandra Anastasia, Alberto Grao-Cruces, G. Soldà, G. Zanutto, S. Riegger, R. Mulato, David Sánchez-Oliva, A. Ceciliani, S. Marini, L. Dallolio
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Pub Date : 2024-04-08DOI: 10.1007/s10389-024-02243-w
Dmytro Dmytriiev, Eric L. Garland
{"title":"Chronic pain during 60 days of war: the impact of the Russian war on Ukrainian patients","authors":"Dmytro Dmytriiev, Eric L. Garland","doi":"10.1007/s10389-024-02243-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-024-02243-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509802,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Health","volume":"172 S390","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140730932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-06DOI: 10.1007/s10389-024-02232-z
Mary-Katherine Lynch, Gabriella Rivas, Mathew J. Gregoski, L. Hartsock, Kristoff Reid
{"title":"Allocating operating room time in orthopaedic trauma: a survey in medical ethics","authors":"Mary-Katherine Lynch, Gabriella Rivas, Mathew J. Gregoski, L. Hartsock, Kristoff Reid","doi":"10.1007/s10389-024-02232-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-024-02232-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509802,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Health","volume":"11 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140734716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Long-haul COVID-19 and its associated risk factors: a systematic review and meta-analysis","authors":"Monika Agarwal, Pratyaksha Pandit, Maviya Khan, Sugandha Jauhari, Abhishek Singh, Shambhavi Mishra, Smriti Verma","doi":"10.1007/s10389-024-02246-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-024-02246-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509802,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Health","volume":"42 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140736852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-05DOI: 10.1007/s10389-024-02245-8
Hui Wang, Jin-hua Shen, Jun Dai, Jiang-xia Zhu, Li Tong, Xue-qing Zhang
{"title":"Associations between sleep quality and coping style among front-line nurses: a cross-sectional study in China","authors":"Hui Wang, Jin-hua Shen, Jun Dai, Jiang-xia Zhu, Li Tong, Xue-qing Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s10389-024-02245-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-024-02245-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509802,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Health","volume":"13 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140738700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-05DOI: 10.1007/s10389-024-02240-z
H. Karnik, Hikaru Peterson, Laura Bohen, Caitlin Caspi
{"title":"Relationship between local food environment and reliance on food pantries: insights from a statewide client survey in Minnesota","authors":"H. Karnik, Hikaru Peterson, Laura Bohen, Caitlin Caspi","doi":"10.1007/s10389-024-02240-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-024-02240-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509802,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Health","volume":"226 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140740138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-04DOI: 10.1007/s10389-024-02242-x
Giovanni Vespoli, Benedetta Taddei, Enrico Imbimbo, L. De Luca, Annalaura Nocentini
{"title":"The concept of privacy in the digital world according to teenagers","authors":"Giovanni Vespoli, Benedetta Taddei, Enrico Imbimbo, L. De Luca, Annalaura Nocentini","doi":"10.1007/s10389-024-02242-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-024-02242-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509802,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Health","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140746141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tuberculosis cases in the Philippines: A new public health crisis?","authors":"Jeff Clyde Corpuz","doi":"10.1093/pubmed/fdae043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdae043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509802,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Health","volume":"29 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140742875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deconstructing essentials: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Jabin J. Deguma","doi":"10.1093/pubmed/fdae040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdae040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":509802,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Health","volume":"21 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140746321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}