PAs explored innovative strategies to bridge the communication gap and enhance patient understanding.
Daytheon Sturges, PhD, PA-C, vice chair for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, recalled an encounter with a patient having difficulty managing a chronic medical condition. Throughout multiple appointments, he provided her with several different types of handouts explaining her condition and the best way to care for herself at home.
To help PAs provide more effective patient education, Sturges and Quanté Greenlee, PhD, MPH, PA-C, at the University of Washington School of Medicine's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, shared effective tools and strategies at the individual and organizational level at aAt the start of the session, Sturges emphasized that health literacy is not just an individual issue.
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, approximately 36% of adults in the United States have limited health literacy, with racial and ethnic minorities demonstrating lower than average health literacy scores than others. More importantly, 42% of people who report poor health status have below basic health literacy scores.
"It's an easy way to look at information you are providing to determine whether it is simple and easy to understand," he said.on its website. Greenlee said it breaks down information, ranging from content to graphics, and more, to make it understandable. "There's so much room for miscommunication with the population I work with, which is predominantly Spanish speaking, low health literacy, with numerous barriers to access to care," she said."I'm very interested in seeing how I can make our visits as productive as possible so I can better empower patients to take control of their health."
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