Re: Newest Vital Sign

I have used it both as a training tool to help educators and health
professionals understand that health literacy includes math, reading, and
listening skills required to complete the 6 questions.  Additionally, when
they answer the questions correctly, I correlate the NAAL results in terms
of approximately how many patients/clients will only be able to answer 2 or
3 of the questions correctly.

I have found the tool to be effective in terms of easily integrating in to
DM patient education. "We are going to be discussing a number of aspects of
food choices and your eating plan. I want to make sure that I am providing
information that is useful to you, so I would like to ask you a few
questions before we start about this food label."

Barry Weiss, MD has done a good deal of work to correlate the NVS to the
REALM and tested in both English and Spanish. If you do a lit search under
his name, you will find the back up.

David
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David Pole, MPH
Deputy Director, Division of Community Health Promotion
Deputy Director, AHEC Program Office
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Saint Louis University School of Medicine
(P) 314-977-8484   (F) 314-977-5268
poledc at slu.edu

SLU Family and Community Medicine ~ Innovations in Education, Research, and
Primary Care
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Bonnie Anton <bba at nauticom.net> wrote:


> Hello all

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> Has anyone on the list used the Newest Vital Sign as a testing tool? I am

> interested in knowing the experiences of others with this tool or other

> tools you would suggest for evaluating health literacy. I am working with a

> nurse who has chosen this topic for her project and she will be

> interviewing

> patients who come to an out patient educational session prior to their hip

> or knee replacement surgery.

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> Thanks for your help

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> Bonnie B. Anton RN MN

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> UPMC St. Margaret Hospital

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