A Shortened Instrument for Literacy Screening

Pat F. Bass; John F. Wilson; Charles H. Griffith

doi:10.1111/j.1525-1497.2003.10651.x

A Shortened Instrument for Literacy Screening

Pat F. Bass, John F. Wilson, Charles H. Griffith

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1036-1038
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of General Internal Medicine
Volume	18
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-1497.2003.10651.x
State	Published - Dec 2003

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Health literacy
Reading level
Screening

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Internal Medicine

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