Bilingual health literacy assessment using the Talking Touchscreen/la Pantalla Parlanchina: Development and pilot testing

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 295-301

  Yost, Kathleen J ^a,b   Webster, Kimberly ^a,b   Baker, David W ^b   Choi, Seung W ^a,b   Bode, Rita K ^a,b   Hahn, Elizabeth A ^a,b  

^a NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnic groups; Literacy; Multimedia; Psychometrics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PILOT STUDY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPEECH; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUP; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; MULTIMEDIA; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ADULT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; MULTIMEDIA; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 67349272251     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2009.02.020     Document Type: Article

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