Clinical utility of a brief screen for health literacy and numeracy among adults with diabetes mellitus.

Background And Objectives: Our objectives were to (1) compare Newest Vital Sign (NVS) scores and administration characteristics with the short (S) version of the Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (S-TOFHLA) and Spoken Knowledge in Low-Literacy Diabetes (SKILLD) tool and (2) gather information from research assistants (RAs) regarding their perceptions of patient understanding of NVS items.

Methods: Adults, age ? 18 years, with diabetes mellitus visiting a primary care clinic were recruited to participate. An RA orally administered a sociodemographic questionnaire.

Teaching bedside sonography using peer mentoring: a prospective randomized trial.

Objectives: Bedside sonography is a growing field of medicine, but there is little evidence about how to teach it to medical students. A peer-mentoring system may help preclinical medical students learn bedside sonography.

Methods: In 2008 and 2009, participating first-year medical students completed an image recognition test at 0, 2, and 4 months and were randomized to an early or a late intervention group.

A validation study of the spoken knowledge in low literacy in diabetes scale (SKILLD).

Background: In 2005 the Spoken Knowledge in Low Literacy in Diabetes scale (SKILLD) was introduced as a diabetes knowledge test. The SKILLD has not been validated since its introduction.

Objective: To perform a validation analysis on the SKILLD.

Screening questions to predict limited health literacy: a cross-sectional study of patients with diabetes mellitus.

Purpose: Limited health literacy is increasingly recognized as a barrier to receiving adequate health care. Identifying patients at risk of poor health outcomes secondary to limited health literacy is currently the responsibility of clinicians. Our objective was to identify which screening questions and demographics independently predict limited health literacy and could thus help clinicians individualize their patient education.