Limitations of the S-TOFHLA in measuring poor numeracy: a cross-sectional study

• Hauptverfasser: Ashley J. Housten (VerfasserIn), Lisa M. Lowenstein (VerfasserIn), Diana S. Hoover (VerfasserIn), Viola B. Leal (VerfasserIn), Geetanjali R. Kamath (VerfasserIn), Robert J. Volk (VerfasserIn)
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• Veröffentlicht: BMC, 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Although the Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (S-TOFHLA) is widely used, misidentification of individuals with low health literacy (HL) in specific HL dimensions, like numeracy, is a concern. We examined the degree to which individuals scored as "adequate&q...