Health Literacy Among People with Serious Mental Illness
Health Literacy Among People with Serious Mental Illness
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DOI：
10.1007/s10597-015-9951-8
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发表时间：
2016-05-01
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Britigan, Denise H.
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作者：
Clausen, Whitney;Watanabe-Galloway, Shinobu;Britigan, Denise H.
被诊断患有精神疾病的人患上可预防的慢性疾病的风险更高;因此，健康素养的提高可能会对这一通常得不到充分服务的人群的健康结果产生巨大影响。然而，缺乏关于严重精神疾病患者健康素养的研究。本研究的目的是调查健康素养的各个方面，并确定与严重精神疾病的成人识字率低的因素，使用三个识字评估工具。对71名患有严重精神疾病的成年人进行了评估，其中很大一部分人的识字水平有限：42%的人使用单项识字筛选器，50%的人使用快速评估成人识字能力的医学简表，67%的人使用最新生命体征。研究结果表明，患有某些精神疾病和功能低下的人可能更难以理解健康信息，并且数字识字能力有限。
People diagnosed with a mental illness are at higher risk of developing preventable chronic diseases; thus, health literacy improvements may have great potential to impact health outcomes for this typically underserved population. However, there is a dearth of research on health literacy of persons with severe mental illness. The purpose of this research was to investigate aspects of health literacy and identify factors associated with low literacy among adults with severe mental illness using three literacy assessment tools. Seventy-one adults with serious mental illness were assessed and a high proportion had limited literacy levels: 42 % with the Single Item Literacy Screener, 50 % with the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine-Short Form, and 67 % with the Newest Vital Sign. Findings suggest that individuals with certain mental illnesses and lower functioning may have more difficulty understanding health information and have limited numerical literacy.