Development and Validation of a Heart Failure-Specific Health Literacy Scale.

CONCLUSIONS: Our new HL scale was demonstrated to be a reliable, valid instrument for measuring functional, communicative, and critical HL in patients with HF. Exploring a patient's HL level, including the ability to access, understand, and use health information as well as the ability to read and write, may provide better understanding of patients' potential barriers to self-care.
PMID: 26049813 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing - June 4, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Matsuoka S, Kato N, Kayane T, Yamada M, Koizumi M, Ikegame T, Tsuchihashi-Makaya M Tags: J Cardiovasc Nurs Source Type: research