Low health literacy is a problem for a substantial proportion of people with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), according to research published in The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation (JHTR).
Mar 29 2024Wolters Kluwer Low health literacy is a problem for a substantial proportion of people with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury , according to research published in The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation . The official journal of the Brain Injury Association of America, JHTR is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.
They emphasize that health literacy can impact the comprehension, assimilation, and utilization of healthcare education and recommendations, and they urge clinicians to attend to health literacy when providing education and recommendations to individuals with TBI. For each of 14 questions, participants could read the item or touch a button to hear the question read aloud. For some questions, the participant viewed a related image or graph. To respond, participants pressed a button corresponding to the answer they believed was correct.
Certain demographic factors, but not TBI severity, affected health literacy Adequate health literacy was more likely among participants with more than a high school education than those with less formal education and among non-Hispanic white individuals compared with Hispanic and non-Hispanic Black individuals. There was no significant difference in the odds of having adequate health literacy for those with complicated mild/moderate injury compared to those with severe injury.
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