Abstract
Health literacy is related to a number of health status variables and has been associated with medication adherence in persons treated for HIV infection. Currently-available measures of health literacy require lengthy administration or have content or format limitations. In this paper we report the preliminary development and validation of a brief computer-administered health literacy test that includes content focused on medication adherence as well as questions based on a video simulation of an HIV-related clinical encounter. The measure shows significant relations with other measures of health literacy, HIV-related knowledge, and electronically-measured medication adherence. We also present receiver operating characteristic analyses that provide estimates of various scores' sensitivities and specifies so that the HIV-Related Health Literacy Scale can be used as a screening measure.
| Original language | American English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 710-718 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | AIDS & Behavior |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 1 2013 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Funding
Acknowledgments Support for this study was provided by Grant R21MH086491 to Dr. Ownby from the National Institute on Mental Health.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| National Institute of Mental Health | R21MH086491 |
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Social Psychology
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Infectious Diseases
Keywords
- Adherence
- Cognition
- Health Literacy
- ROC Curve
- Health literacy
- ROC curve
- Humans
- Anti-HIV Agents/therapeutic use
- Male
- CD4 Lymphocyte Count
- Educational Status
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
- Viral Load
- HIV Infections/drug therapy
- Health Literacy/statistics & numerical data
- Female
- Surveys and Questionnaires
- Qualitative Research
- Assessment of Medication Adherence
Disciplines
- Psychology