[NIFL-HEALTH:4506] RE: Reply to Q. on oral health-literacy

From: Mary Sitterding (mmcasnet@nalu.net)
Date: Fri Jul 30 2004 - 11:48:37 EDT


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Teaching patients with low literacy skills. (Doak, Doak, Root. Lippincott.
1985) is an incredible resource for providers.  This text can be found on
every nursing unit in our hospital organization.  Really incredible
resource.

Mary Sitterding, M.S.N.
Health Literacy Team
Columbus Regional Hospital
Columbus, Indiana

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Dear Heidi Maloni ,

Perhaps this may be of help: (Will include this on NIFL net because of 
possible interest by others)

1.  A good research publication is Auding and Reading, A Developmental Model

by Thomas Sticht, L.J.Beck, R.N.Hauke. Published by Human Resources Research

Org., Alexandria, Va. in 1974.  (147 pp)  The work was done under a US Air 
Force contract. 
(We have a copy. Not sure you can get this pub.)

Sticht compares learning by auding and reading. His data shows that beyond 
the age of about 12, people can learn equally well by auding or reading.
Chapter 
titles are:
   - Introduction
   - The developmental model of auding and reading
   -  The development of listening/Looking and Auding/Reading processes
   -  Review of the literature
   -  Summary and implications

2.  Another good resource is:  Kavanaugh and Mattingly. "Language by ear and

eye: the relationship between speech and reading. MIT Press, Cambridge, Ma.,

1972.

3. On pages 78 and 79 of the first edition of our book, Doak, Doak, Root.  
Teaching patients with low literacy skills. Lippincott. 1985, we summarize
some 
key findings of the above authors as it relates to health care instruction
for 
patients.  On pages 24-26 we describe a process for a listening
comprehension 
test, and give an example.

4. An article in Patient Counseling and Health Education, Winter 1980, 
describes the method and results of our testing the literacy skills of 100
patients 
- several via a listening test only - and comparing their skill levels with 
the readability levels of 100 written instructions in use at the hospital.

We hope this is of some help.  
Best wishes,

Len and Ceci Doak
Patient Learning Associates
Potomac, Md.



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