TY - JOUR
T1 - A Shortened Instrument for Literacy Screening
AU - Bass, Pat F.
AU - Wilson, John F.
AU - Griffith, Charles H.
PY - 2003/12
Y1 - 2003/12
N2 - The Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM-R), a new 8-item instrument designed to rapidly screen patients for potential health literacy problems, was administered to 157 patients. The REALM-R was correlated with Wide Range Achievement Test-Revised (WRAT-R) (.64) and demonstrated a Cronbach's α of 0.91. The REALM-R identified 26 of 30 persons scoring more than 1 standard deviation below the mean on the WRAT-R, corresponding to a sixth grade reading level. The REALM-R identified a substantial number of people who scored poorly on the WRAT-R, and depending on further studies of validity and reliability, may offer a practical approach to identify patients at risk for health literacy problems in a clinical setting.
AB - The Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM-R), a new 8-item instrument designed to rapidly screen patients for potential health literacy problems, was administered to 157 patients. The REALM-R was correlated with Wide Range Achievement Test-Revised (WRAT-R) (.64) and demonstrated a Cronbach's α of 0.91. The REALM-R identified 26 of 30 persons scoring more than 1 standard deviation below the mean on the WRAT-R, corresponding to a sixth grade reading level. The REALM-R identified a substantial number of people who scored poorly on the WRAT-R, and depending on further studies of validity and reliability, may offer a practical approach to identify patients at risk for health literacy problems in a clinical setting.
KW - Health literacy
KW - Reading level
KW - Screening
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2003.10651.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2003.10651.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 14687263
AN - SCOPUS:0347755243
SN - 0884-8734
VL - 18
SP - 1036
EP - 1038
JO - Journal of General Internal Medicine
JF - Journal of General Internal Medicine
IS - 12
ER -