Development and Validation of the Spanish Numeracy Understanding in Medicine Instrument

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1345-1352

  Jacobs, Elizabeth A ^a   Walker, Cindy M ^b   Miller, Tamara ^b   Fletcher, Kathlyn E ^c   Ganschow, Pamela S ^d   Imbert, Diana ^e   O’Connell, Maria ^d   Neuner, Joan M ^c   Schapira, Marilyn M ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cross cultural research; health literacy; health numeracy; measurement; Spanish language

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLINOIS; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICINE; MEXICO; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIABILITY; RESIDENT; SPEECH; STATISTICS; VALIDATION PROCESS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPREHENSION; HISPANIC; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; TRANSLATING (LANGUAGE); TRENDS;

ADULT; AGED; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSLATING;

EID: 84975166262     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-016-3759-2     Document Type: Article

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