Development and Validation of a Computer-Administered Health Literacy Measure

计算机管理健康素养测量的开发和验证

• 批准号: 8269015
• 负责人: RAYMOND L OWNBY
• 金额: $ 33.28万
• 依托单位: NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-10 至 2014-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8269015
• 关键词: 18 year old; Accounting; Address; Adult; Affect; Age; Age-Years; Alcohols; Area; Back; Characteristics; Clinic; Clinical; Clinical Research; Cognitive; Cognitive deficits; Communication; Communities; Comprehension; Computers; Consumption; Data; Development; Development Plans; Diabetes Mellitus; Diagnosis; Diagnostic; Disease; Economics; Elderly; Electronics; Ensure; Environment; Ethnic group; Exercise; Feedback; Florida; Food Labeling; Foundations; Future; Goals; Graph; Health; Health Personnel; Health Services; Health Status; Healthcare; Healthcare Systems; Home visitation; House Call; Hypertension; Individual; Institute of Medicine (U.S.); Insurance; Intelligence; Internet; Intervention; Knowledge; Language; Lead; Life; Linguistics; Liquid substance; Measurement; Measures; Medical; Methods; Minority Groups; NIH Program Announcements; Nature; Nutrition Labeling; Outcome; Participant; Patient Self-Report; Patients; Persons; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Phase; Population; Population Heterogeneity; Preventive; Problem Solving; Procedures; Process; Property; Psychometrics; Public Health; Quality of life; Readability; Reading; Recommendation; Recruitment Activity; Reporting; Request for Applications; Research; Research Personnel; Screening procedure; Self-Administered; Smoking; Sorting - Cell Movement; Staging; Study Section; Tablets; Technology; Testing; Time; Translating; Validation; Vision; Wolves; Work; Writing; age group; age related; base; clinical practice; computerized; coping; cost effective; design; diet and exercise; empowered; ethnic minority population; executive function; functional health literacy; health care service utilization; health literacy; health related quality of life; improved; innovation; instrument; interest; member; public health relevance; research study; response; simulation; skills; staff intervention; theories; tool; touchscreen

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Health literacy has emerged as a critically important factor in health outcomes. Although existing measures of health literacy have distinct advantages and have been useful in research and clinical practice, each has characteristics that reduce its usefulness with some populations. The core aim of this application will be to develop a new health literacy measure with content, linguistic, and psychometric properties that will make it more broadly useful for screening and diagnostic purposes in clinical and research populations. It will be administered using computer touch screen technology to make the measure easily administered and scored and readily accessible via computers or the Internet. During development the measure will be validated by assessing its relations to other measures and participants' health. The planned development process will use item response theory (IRT) methods to develop a measure that functions equivalently in both Spanish and English and with younger and older persons. Its content will be broadly based following the recommendations health literacy experts and include audio and video items to enhance the measure's interest and validity. The measure will be computer administered using touch screen technology so that when deployed it may be self-administered and scored. The measure will be developed in two phases. We will first generate approximately 200 candidate items by rationally creating items of various levels of difficulty within broad content areas related to health literacy based on the content areas described in the Institute of Medicine report on health literacy (Nielsen-Bohlman et al., 2004). Items will be generated in Spanish or English and then translated and back translated into and from each language to ensure that their content is equivalent in both languages. We will then pilot test these candidate items in Spanish and English with 75 persons from each language group across several age ranges, drawing on persons aged 18 years and older. Items will be qualitatively evaluated using participant feedback and quantitatively using nonparametric IRT methods Items will be selected from the larger item pool for testing with larger groups of 30 persons in each decade of age from the 20s to 80s in both Spanish and English, so that 60 persons in each decade will be involved in the second phase of scale development for a total of 420 persons. The measure will be validated by assessing its relations with currently-used measures of health literacy, cognitive and academic measures, and health status, health care-related quality of life, and utilization of healthcare services. The creation of an easily-administered measure of health literacy will further the goals of this program announcement that requests applications focused on improved measures of health literacy. The new measure will be readily deployed over the Web. Future development will allow the creation of a computerized adaptive measure of health literacy and integrated tailored information applications to improve health literacy. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Health literacy is a critically important public health problem but current measures of it are inadequate. The application to be developed in this application will address this problem by creating a computer-administered measure of health literacy that is useful across age and language groups and is cost-effective to use.

描述(由申请者提供)：健康素养已成为影响健康结果的一个至关重要的因素。尽管现有的健康素养措施具有明显的优势，并在研究和临床实践中发挥了作用，但每种措施都有降低其对某些人群的有用性的特点。这项应用的核心目标将是开发一种新的健康素养测量方法，具有内容、语言和心理测量特性，使其在临床和研究人群中更广泛地用于筛查和诊断目的。它将使用计算机触摸屏技术进行管理，使测量易于管理和评分，并易于通过计算机或互联网访问。在制定过程中，将通过评估其与其他措施和参与者健康的关系来验证该措施。计划中的发展进程将使用项目反应理论(IRT)方法来制定一种在西班牙语和英语中以及在年轻人和老年人中同等发挥作用的措施。其内容将广泛遵循健康素养专家的建议，并包括音频和视频项目，以提高措施的趣味性和有效性。这项措施将使用触摸屏技术通过计算机进行管理，因此在部署时可以自我管理并进行评分。这项措施将分两个阶段制定。我们将首先根据《医学研究所关于健康素养的报告》(Nielsen-Bohlman等人，2004年)中描述的内容领域，合理地在与健康素养相关的广泛内容领域内创建各种难度的项目，从而产生大约200个候选项目。项目将以西班牙语或英语生成，然后翻译成每种语言，并从每种语言进行反向翻译，以确保它们的内容在两种语言中是相等的。然后，我们将用西班牙语和英语对这些候选项目进行试点测试，每个语言组有75人，年龄跨度不同，年龄在18岁及以上的人。项目将使用参与者反馈进行定性评估，并使用非参数IRT方法进行定量评估，项目将从较大的项目池中选择，用于在20多岁至80多岁的每个十岁的更大群体中测试西班牙语和英语，因此每个十年将有60人参与第二阶段的量表开发，总计420人。这项措施将通过评估其与目前使用的健康素养、认知和学习指标、健康状况、与医疗保健相关的生活质量和医疗服务利用情况的关系来进行验证。创建一种易于管理的健康素养衡量标准将促进本计划宣布的目标，该计划要求应用程序专注于改进健康素养衡量标准。这项新措施将很容易在网上部署。未来的发展将允许创建一种计算机化的健康素养适应性衡量标准和综合的量身定制的信息应用程序，以提高健康素养。 公共卫生相关性：健康素养是一个极其重要的公共卫生问题，但目前的措施还不够充分。将在这一应用程序中开发的应用程序将通过创建一种计算机管理的健康素养测量来解决这一问题，该测量方法对不同年龄和语言群体都有用，而且使用起来成本效益高。