Health Literacy Among People with Serious Mental Illness

Community Mental Health Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 399-405

  Clausen, Whitney ^a   Watanabe Galloway, Shinobu ^b   Bill Baerentzen, M ^c   Britigan, Denise H ^b  

^a Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Community Alliance ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Community setting; Health literacy; Newest Vital Sign (NVS); Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine Short form (REALM SF); Severe mental illness; Single Item Literacy Screener (SILS)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84944624191     PISSN: 00103853     EISSN: 15732789     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10597-015-9951-8     Document Type: Article

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