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Joanne R. Nurss
Researcher at Georgia State University
Publications - 30
Citations - 7364
Joanne R. Nurss is an academic researcher from Georgia State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Literacy & Primary education. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 30 publications receiving 6905 citations. Previous affiliations of Joanne R. Nurss include Emory University.
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The test of functional health literacy in adults: a new instrument for measuring patients' literacy skills.
TL;DR: The Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (TOFHLA) as mentioned in this paper was developed using actual hospital materials and consists of a 50-item reading comprehension and 17-item numerical ability test.
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Development of a brief test to measure functional health literacy.
TL;DR: The development of an abbreviated version of the Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (TOFHLA) to measure patients' ability to read and understand health-related materials that can be used by health educators to identify individuals who require special assistance to achieve learning goals is described.
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Relationship of Functional Health Literacy to Patients' Knowledge of Their Chronic Disease A Study of Patients With Hypertension and Diabetes
TL;DR: Inadequate functional health literacy poses a major barrier to educating patients with chronic diseases, and current efforts to overcome this appear unsuccessful.
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Inadequate functional health literacy among patients at two public hospitals.
Mark V. Williams,Ruth M. Parker,David W. Baker,Nina S. Parikh,Kathryn Pitkin,Wendy C. Coates,Joanne R. Nurss +6 more
TL;DR: Many patients at the authors' institutions cannot perform the basic reading tasks required to function in the health care environment, and inadequate health literacy may be an important barrier to patients' understanding of their diagnoses and treatments, and to receiving high-quality care.
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The relationship of patient reading ability to self-reported health and use of health services
TL;DR: Low literacy is strongly associated withSelf-reported poor health and is more closely associated with self-reported health than number of years of school completed.