Special diabetes program for Indians: Reliability and validity of brief measures of print literacy and numeracy

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 207-214

  Brega, Angela G ^a   Jiang, Luohua ^a   Beals, Janette ^a   Manson, Spero M ^a   Acton, Kelly J ^b   Roubideaux, Yvette ^b  

^a Global Health and Health Disparities   (United States)

^b INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

American Indian health; Health literacy; Psychometrics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES EDUCATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INUITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861923607     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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