Chronic disease self-management and health literacy in four ethnic groups

Journal of Health Communication

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2012, Pages 67-81

  Shaw, Susan J ^a   Armin, Julie ^a   Torres, Cristina Huebner ^b   Orzech, Kathryn M ^c   Vivian, James ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Caring Health Center   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC DISEASE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CARE; STATISTICS; VIET NAM;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN AMERICANS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CARE; VIETNAM;

EID: 84867565410     PISSN: 10810730     EISSN: 10870415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2012.712623     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (52)

1. Andrulis, D. P., &, Brach, C. (2007). Integrating literacy, culture, and language to improve health care quality for diverse populations. American Journal of Health Behavior, 31 (Suppl. 1), S122-S133.
2. Armstrong, N., &, Murphy, E. (2008). Weaving meaning? An exploration of the interplay between lay and professional understandings of cervical cancer risk. Social Science & Medicine, 67, 1074-1082.
3. Baker, D. W. (2006). The meaning and the measure of health literacy. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 21, 878-883.
4. Baker, D. W., Williams, M. V., Parker, R. M., Gazmararian, J. A., &, Nurss, J. (1999). Development of a brief test to measure functional health literacy. Patient Education and Counseling, 38, 33-42.
5. Berkanovic, E. (1980). The effects of inadequate language translation on Hispanics' response to health surveys. American Journal of Public Health, 70, 1273-1276.
6. Berkman, N., Davis, T., &, McCormack, L. (2010). Health literacy: What is it? Journal of Health Communication, 15, 9-19.
7. Berkman, N., Sheridan, S. L., Donahue, K. E., Halpern, D. J., &, Crotty, K. (2011). Low health literacy and health outcomes: An updated systematic review. Annals of Internal Medicine, 155, 97-107.
8. Borovoy, A., &, Hine, J. (2008). Managing the unmanageable: Elderly Jewish emigres and the biomedical culture of diabetes care. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 22, 1-26.
9. Charles, C., Whelan, T., Gafni, A., Reyno, L., &, Redko, C. (1998). Doing nothing is no choice: Lay constructions of treatment decision-making among women with early-stage breast cancer. Sociology of Health & Illness, 20, 71-95.
10. Connett, G. J., &, Lee, B. W. (1994). Treating childhood asthma in Singapore: When West meets East. British Medical Journal, 308, 1282-1284.
11. Davis, T., Long, S., Jackson, R., Mayeaux, E., George, R., Murphy, P., &, Crouch, M. (1993). Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine: A shortened screening instrument. Family Medicine, 25, 391-395.
12. DeWalt, D. A., Berkman, N. D., Sheridan, S., Lohr, K. N., &, Pignone, M. P. (2004). Literacy and health outcomes: A systematic review of the literature. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 19, 1228-1239.
13. Gesler, W. M. (1999). Words in wards: Language, health and place. Health Place, 5, 13-25.
14. Greenhalgh, T., Helman, C., &, Chowdhury, A. M. (1998). Health beliefs and folk models of diabetes in British Bangladeshis: A qualitative study. British Medical Journal, 316, 978-983.
15. Heurtin-Roberts, S., &, Reisin, E. (1992). The relation of culturally influenced lay models of hypertension to compliance with treatment. American Journal of Hypertension, 5, 787-792.
16. Hewlett, B., &, Amola, R. (2003). Cultural contexts of Ebola in northern Uganda. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 9, 1242-1248.
17. Hironaka, L. K., &, Paasche-Orlow, M. K. (2008). The implications of health literacy on patient-provider communication. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 93, 428-432.
18. Horowitz, C. R., Tuzzio, L., Rojas, M., Monteith, S. A., &, Sisk, J. E. (2004). How do urban African Americans and Latinos view the influence of diet on hypertension? Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 15, 631-644.
19. Huizinga, M. M., Elasy, T. A., Wallston, K. A., Cavanaugh, K., Davis, D., Gregory, R. P., Rothman, R. L. (2008). Development and validation of the Diabetes Numeracy Test (DNT). BMC Health Services Research, 8, 96.
20. Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Health Literacy. (2009). Measures of Health Literacy: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.
21. Ito, K. (1999). Health culture and the clinical encounter: Vietnamese refugees' responses to preventive drug treatment of inactive tuberculosis. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 13, 338-364.
22. Jordan, J. E., Osborne, R. H., &, Buchbinder, R. (2011). Critical appraisal of health literacy indices revealed variable underlying constructs, narrow content and psychometric weaknesses. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 64, 366-379.
23. Kickbusch, I. S. (2001). Health literacy: Addressing the health and education divide. Health Promotion International, 16, 289-297.
24. Kiser, K., Jonas, D., Warner, Z., Scanlon, K., Shilliday, B. B., &, Dewalt, D. A. (2012). A randomized controlled trial of a literacy-sensitive self-management intervention for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 27, 190-195.
25. Lee, H., &, Vang, S. (2010). Barriers to cancer screening in Hmong Americans: The influence of health care accessibility, culture, and cancer literacy. Journal of Community Health, 35, 302-314.
26. Lee, S. Y., Arozullah, A. M., &, Cho, Y. I. (2004). Health literacy, social support, and health: A research agenda. Social Science & Medicine, 58, 1309-1321.
27. Lee, S. Y., Bender, D. E., Ruiz, R. E., &, Cho, Y. I. (2006). Development of an easy-to-use Spanish health literacy test. Health Services Research, 41 (4, Pt. 1), 1392-1412.
28. Lupton, D. (1994). Toward the development of critical health communication praxis. Health Communication, 6, 55-67.
29. MacQueen, K. M. (1998). Codebook development for team-based qualitative analysis. Cultural Anthropology Methods, 10, 31-36.
30. Mancuso, C. A., &, Rincon, M. (2006). Impact of health literacy on longitudinal asthma outcomes. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 21, 813-817.
31. Martin, L. T., Schonlau, M., Haas, A., Derose, K. P., Rosenfeld, L., Buka, S. L., &, Rudd, R. (2011). Patient activation and advocacy: Which literacy skills matter most? Journal of Health Communication, 16 (Suppl. 3), 177-190.
32. Melhuus, M. (1999). Insisting on culture? Social Anthropology, 7, 65-80.
33. Muhr, T. (1997). Atlas.ti [Computer Software]. Berlin, Germany: Scientific Software Development.
34. Nurss, J. R., Baker, D. W., Davis, T. C., Parker, R. M., &, Williams, M. (1995). Difficulties in functional health literacy screening in Spanish-speaking adults. Journal of Reading, 38, 632-637.
35. Nutbeam, D. (2000). Health literacy as a public health goal: A challenge for contemporary health education and communication strategies into the 21st century. Health Promotion International, 15, 259-267.
36. Nutbeam, D. (2008). The evolving concept of health literacy. Social Science & Medicine, 67, 2072-2078.
37. Orzech, K. M., Vivian, J., Torres, C. H., Armin, J., &, Shaw, S. J. (in press). Diet and exercise adherence and practices among medically underserved patients with chronic disease: Variation across four ethnic groups. Health Education & Behavior. doi: 10.1117/1090198112436970
38. Pan, F. C., Su, C. L., &, Chen, C. H. (2010). Development of a health literacy scale for Chinese-speaking adults in Taiwan. International Journal of Biological and Life Sciences, 6, 150-156.
39. Rudd, R. E. (2007). Health literacy skills of U.S. adults. American Journal of Health Behavior, 31 (Suppl. 1), S8-S18.
40. Sarkar, U., Fisher, L., &, Schillinger, D. (2006). Is self-efficacy associated with diabetes self-management across race/ethnicity and health literacy? Diabetes Care, 29, 823-829.
41. Sarkar, U., Piette, J. D., Gonzalez, R., Lessler, D., Chew, L. D., Reilly, B., Schillinger, D. (2008). Preferences for self-management support: Findings from a survey of diabetes patients in safety-net health systems. Patient Education & Counseling, 70, 102-110.
42. Schillinger, D., &, Chen, A. H. (2004). Literacy and language: Disentangling measures of access, utilization and quality. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 19, 288-300.
43. Schoenberg, N. E., &, Drew, E. M. (2002). Articulating silences: Experiential and biomedical constructions of hypertension symptomatology. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 16, 458-475.
44. Sensky, T. (1996). Eliciting lay beliefs across cultures: Principle and methodology. British Journal of Cancer Supplement, 29, S63-S65.
45. Shaw, S., Vivian, J., Huebner, C., Orzech, K., &, Armin, J. (2009). The role of culture in health literacy and chronic disease screening and management. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 11, 460-468.
46. Strauss, A., &, Corbin, J. (1990). Basics of Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory Procedures and Techniques. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
47. Sudore, R. L., Schillinger, D., Knight, S. J., &, Fried, T. R. (2010). Uncertainty about advance care planning treatment preferences among diverse older adults. Journal of Health Communication, 15 (Suppl. 2), 159-171.
48. Taylor, J. (2003). Confronting culture in medicine's culture of no culture. Academic Medicine, 78, 555-559.
49. Thomas, S. B., Fine, M. J., &, Ibrahim, S. A. (2004). Health disparities: The importance of culture and health communication. [Editorial]. American Journal of Public Health, 94, 2050.
50. Weiss, B. D., Mays, M. Z., Martz, W., Castro, K. M., DeWalt, D. A., Pignone, M. P., Hale, F. A. (2005). Quick assessment of literacy in primary care: The Newest Vital Sign. Annals of Family Medicine, 3, 514-522.
51. Wong, H. M., Bridges, S. M., Yiu, C. K., McGrath, C. P., Au, T. K., &, Parthasarathy, D. S. (2012). Development and validation of Hong Kong Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Dentistry. Journal of Investigative and Clinical Dentistry, 3, 118-127.
52. Zarcadoolas, C., Pleasant, A., &, Greer, D. S. (2005). Understanding health literacy: An expanded model. Health Promotion International, 20, 195-203.