Using single-item health literacy screening questions to identify patients who read written nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine information provided at pharmacies

Journal of Health Communication

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 413-427

  Miller, Michael J ^a,b   Allison, Jeroan J ^c   Schmitt, Michael R ^a,b   Ray, Midge N ^d   Funkhouser, Ellen M ^d,e   Cobaugh, Daniel J ^f   Saag, Kenneth G ^d   Lacivita, Cynthia ^f  

^a Clinical and Administrative Sciences Tulsa   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^e BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEALTH SYSTEM PHARMACISTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG LABELING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHARMACY; PRESCRIPTION; READING; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALABAMA; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG LABELING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PHARMACIES; PRESCRIPTIONS; READING;

EID: 77954026784     PISSN: 10810730     EISSN: 10870415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10810731003753091     Document Type: Article

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