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 An Overview of Medical and Public Health Literature Addressing Literacy Issues: An Annotat...
E.D., Tatum, C., Wilson, A., Dignan, M., & Velez, R. (1996). Use of a photoessay to teach low-income African American women about mammography. Journal of Cancer Education, 11(4), 216-220. Describes and offers findings of a breast cancer screening educa...
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E.D., Tatum, C., Wilson, A., Dignan, M., & Velez, R. (1996). Use of a photoessay to teach low-income African American women about mammography. Journal of Cancer Education, 11(4), 216-220. Describes and offers findings of a breast cancer screening education program for African American women living in low-income housing communities. The use of a photoessay, depicting the process of getting a mammogram, was used to address issues of limited knowledge and low literacy. Evaluations of the program
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who have not participated <span class="highlight">in</span> breast <span class="highlight">cancer</span> screening. Four hundred forty-five women age 40 <span class="highlight">and</span> over <span class="highlight">and</span> who had not had <span class="highlight">a</span> <span class="highlight">mammogram</span> <span class="highlight">in</span> the last year were interviewed to determine knowledge of <span class="highlight">and</span> attitudes toward mammography. Patients’ reading abilities were assessed with the REALM. Concludes that limited literacy skills <span class="highlight">and</span> lack of knowledge about breast <span class="highlight">cancer</span> screening may contribute considerably to the underutilization of screening <span class="highlight">for</span> breast <span class="highlight">cancer</span> <span class="highlight">in</span> low-income women. Davis, T.C., Byrd, R.S
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commonly used <span class="highlight">in</span> the clinic. Most patients were found to have reading abilities far below their last grade completed; nearly all materials tested were written on <span class="highlight">a</span> level far above average patient reading ability. Jubelirer, S.J., Linton, J.C., & Magnetti, S.M. (1994). Reading versus comprehension: Implications <span class="highlight">for</span> patient education <span class="highlight">and</span> consent <span class="highlight">in</span> an outpatient oncology clinic. Journal of <span class="highlight">Cancer</span> Education, 9(1), 26-29. Assesses reading comprehension among <span class="highlight">cancer</span> patients. One hundred adult patients
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NCSALL Reports #14 January 2000 38 Glazer, H.R., Kirk, L.M., & Bosler, F.E. (1996). Patient education pamphlets about prevention, <span class="highlight">detection</span>, <span class="highlight">and</span> treatment of breast <span class="highlight">cancer</span> <span class="highlight">for</span> low literacy women. Patient Education & Counseling, 27(2), 185-189. Analyzes 19 breast <span class="highlight">cancer</span> education pamphlets <span class="highlight">using</span> Right Writer. Materials were found to have an average readability of ninth grade. The authors suggest that literature should be
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Dale-Chall, Flesch, Flesch-Kincaid, SMOG). Readability levels ranged from 6.3 to 13.7 <span class="highlight">and</span> the PPIs were found to require <span class="highlight">a</span> significantly higher grade level <span class="highlight">for</span> comprehension than were the GIs (10.32 vs. 8.69). Meade, C.D., Diekmann, J., & Thornhill, D.G. (1992). Readability of American <span class="highlight">Cancer</span> Society patient education literature. Oncology Nursing Forum, 19(1), 51- 55. Analyzes 51 patient education booklets <span class="highlight">for</span> readability <span class="highlight">using</span> the SMOG formula. Materials were assessed at <span class="highlight">a</span> mean level of 11.9
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E.D., Tatum, C., Wilson, <span class="highlight">A</span>., Dignan, M., & Velez, R. (1996). Use of <span class="highlight">a</span> photoessay to teach low-income African American women about mammography. Journal of <span class="highlight">Cancer</span> Education, 11(4), 216-220. Describes <span class="highlight">and</span> offers findings of <span class="highlight">a</span> breast <span class="highlight">cancer</span> screening education program <span class="highlight">for</span> African American women living <span class="highlight">in</span> low-income housing communities. The use of <span class="highlight">a</span> photoessay, depicting the process of getting <span class="highlight">a</span> <span class="highlight">mammogram</span>, was used to address issues of limited knowledge <span class="highlight">and</span> low literacy. Evaluations of the program
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behavior differences, such as engaging in screening tests for early disease detection. Later, for example, Davis and colleagues found that women with limited literacy skills did not understand the purpose of a mammogram and did not access scree...
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