'Latinos' Health Literacy, Social Support, and OH-KOP"

描述（由申请人提供）：有人认为，卫生知识普及程度低与不利的健康结果和获得所需服务的机会减少有关。拉丁美洲人的健康行为和态度受到社会和文化因素的影响。华盛顿特区近来拉丁裔移民健康素养低的普遍程度尚不清楚。此外，卫生素养水平对大多数得不到充分服务的拉丁美洲人的口腔卫生知识、意见和做法的影响尚不清楚。拟议的调查将侧重于使用焦点小组方法，以获取有关信念、观点、首选术语的信息，并进一步详细说明和测试旨在评估口腔健康知识与健康素养和社会支持措施之间关系的调查工具，这些工具将在华盛顿特区芒特普莱森特的内城区西班牙裔社区成员中进行评估和进一步详细说明：先前开发的口腔健康知识和实践（KOP）调查工具，在华盛顿特区芒特普莱森特的内城区西班牙裔社区开发；SAHLSA工具——西班牙卫生素养评估工具和社会支持调查工具，此前在北卡罗来纳大学对患者进行了测试和验证；以及使用REALM（英文）的卫生扫盲措施。本定性调查的结果将有助于提高我们对社区中起作用的社会、文化和识字因素的理解，因为它与口腔健康实践和求医行为有关，并将有助于开发和预测试旨在评估口腔健康知识和考虑社会和文化因素的健康素养措施在内城西班牙裔社区成员中的关联。最终，这些工具将用于拉丁裔人口的口腔健康促进和初级预防工作。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): It has been suggested that low health literacy is associated with adverse health outcomes, and reduced access to needed services. Latinos' health behaviors and attitudes are known to be influenced by social and cultural factors. The prevalence of low health literacy of recent Latino immigrants in the Washington D.C. area is unknown. Further, the impact of health literacy levels in the oral health knowledge, opinions, and practices among mostly underserved Latinos is unknown. The proposed investigation will concentrate in using focus group methodology to elicit information about beliefs, viewpoints, preferred terminology and to further detail and test survey instruments designed to assess the relationship between oral health knowledge and measures of health literacy and of social support, in members of an Inner City Hispanic Community in Mount Pleasant, Washington D.C. The instruments that will be assessed and further detailed include: A previously developed oral health knowledge and practices (KOP) survey instrument, developed in the Inner City Hispanic Community of Mount Pleasant in Washington D.C.; the SAHLSA instrument -a Spanish Health Literacy Assessment Tool, and a social support survey instrument, both previously tested and validated with patients at the University of North Carolina; and Health literacy measures using REALM (in English). The results of this qualitative investigation will help improve our understanding of the social, cultural and literacy factors at play in this community as it pertains to oral health practices and care seeking behaviors, and will assist in developing and pre-testing instruments designed to assess the association of oral health knowledge and measures of health literacy considering social and cultural factors in members of an Inner City Hispanic Community. Ultimately, these instruments will serve to target oral health promotion and primary prevention efforts for Latino populations.