Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Recognizing And Addressing Limited Pharmaceutical Literacy (RALPH) interview guide in community pharmacies.

Background: The RALPH (Recognizing and Addressing Limited PHarmaceutical Literacy) interview guide makes it possible to identify patients with limited pharmaceutical knowledge and to assess their skills in the functional, communicative, and critical health literacy domains.

Objective: (s): To perform a cross-cultural validation of the RALPH interview guide in Spanish population; to conduct a descriptive analysis based on patients' responses.

Methods: A cross-sectional study of patients' pharmaceutical literacy skills was conducted in three stages: systematic translation, administration of the interview and analysis of psychometric properties.

Development and Validation of the Hospital Outpatients' Information Needs Questionnaire (HOINQ).

Purpose: The main objective was to develop and validate a "Hospital Outpatients' Information Needs Questionnaire" (HOINQ). Secondly, to identify patients' preferred sources of information. Finally, to establish differences depending on the disease, as well as between sociodemographic and clinical variables.