I would also like to see the report

Bonnie B. Anton

UPMC

 

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Me, too
Boyd Davis
UNC Charlotte

Joanne Appleton Arnaud <jarnaud at balf.net> wrote:

Hi Lisa,
I'd love to see the report.

Thanks!
Joanne

Joanne Appleton Arnaud
Executive Director
Boston Adult Literacy Fund
617.482.3336
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ofhealth literacy initiatives

We've made outcome measurement and evaluation an integral part of the Baby
Basics Program and are working with Medical Health Research Associates in
NYC to ensure that as our program grows we can look at health outcomes as
well as behavior change. That said, we are slowly, slowly working our way
towards a big controlled (hopefully NIH funded) research grant to see how
the Baby Basics program affects birth outcomes. Until then we have done
evaluation of behavior change (still pretty darn important!) that shows:

1. Patient satisfaction at our sites went up with the implementation of our
program in a clinical setting.

2. Adherence to prenatal care went up at our programs in a clinical setting
(people missed fewer appointments)

3. This is the big one in the world of maternal health: Our moms were more
likely to show up at their post-partum appointments (6 weeks following
delivery) at our clinical programs.
(why? We asked and found that now moms understood for the first time WHY
this apointment and indeed why prenatal care was important - it was for
their health not so the doctor could muck about, check the baby and
basically make moms waste their time)

In our non-clinical (community based home visitation programs) we had some
other great successes, but the best was that mothers who read Baby Basics
and received health literacy skill instruction from their home visitors were
also the moms who reported feeling very comfortable going to their doctors
appointments.

I have all of this written up in a lovely evaluation report, if anyone wants
to see it drop me a line.
Thanks
Lisa
Lisa Bernstein
Executive Director
The What To Expect Foundation
144 W. 80th Street
New York, NY 10024
212-712-9764
www.whattoexpect.org

Providing prenatal health and literacy support so that women in need know
what to expect when expecting.

On 8/9/07, Julie McKinney wrote:

>

> Hi Everyone,

>

> There are so many good health literacy initiatives going on around the

> country, and I'm curious as to how their impact on communities and

> cities is being measured. Is anyone taking measures to see if the

> knowledge, access, and/or actual health outcomes improve in a community

> after exposure to health literacy interventions.

>

> I'd love to hear some ideas!

>

> All the best,

> Julie

>

> Julie McKinney

> Discussion List Moderator

> World Education/NCSALL

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