North Carolina Program on Health Literacy Member Publications
Members of the North Carolina Center on Health Literacy are leaders in the field of health literacy, and have contributed greatly to the growing body of work and research on health literacy. Below you will find all relevant member publications in four main categories. Health Literacy and Health includes studies and reviews that assess the relationship between literacy and health outcomes, disease prevalence, health-related knowledge and behaviors, and health services. Applications of Health Literacy Concepts in Practice includes studies and recommendations regarding the implications of health literacy to quality improvement, materials development and health care. Health Literacy Measurement includes studies regarding tools and methods to assess health literacy. Lastly, Interventions includes studies and reviews that assess interventions aimed to improve health care and outcomes for low literacy patients.
Health Literacy and Health
Berkman ND, Dewalt DA, Pignone MP, Sheridan SL, Lohr KN, Lux L, Sutton SF, Swinson T, Bonito AJ. Literacy and health outcomes. Evid Rep Technol Assess (Summ). 2004 Jan;(87):1-8. Review. No abstract available. PMID: 15819598 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Brice JH, Travers D, Cowden CS, Young MD, Sanhueza A, Dunston Y. Health literacy among Spanish-speaking patients in the emergency department. J Natl Med Assoc. 2008 Nov;100(11):1326-32. PMID: 19024230 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Buescher PA, White AE, DeWalt DA; State Center for Health Statistics, NC Department of Health and Human Services. Selected data related to health literacy in North Carolina. N C Med J. 2007 Sep-Oct;68(5):377-8. No abstract available. PMID: 18183768 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
DeWalt DA. Low health literacy: epidemiology and interventions. N C Med J. 2007 Sep-Oct;68(5):327-30. Review. No abstract available. PMID: 18183751 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Dewalt DA, Berkman ND, Sheridan S, Lohr KN, Pignone MP. Literacy and health outcomes: a systematic review of the literature. J Gen Intern Med. 2004 Dec;19(12):1228-39. Review. PMID: 15610334 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
DeWalt DA, Boone RS, Pignone MP. Literacy and its relationship with self-efficacy, trust, and participation in medical decision making. Am J Health Behav. 2007 Sep-Oct;31 Suppl 1:S27-35. PMID: 17931133 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
DeWalt DA, Dilling MH, Rosenthal MS, Pignone MP. Low parental literacy is associated with worse asthma care measures in children. Ambul Pediatr. 2007 Jan-Feb;7(1):25-31. PMID: 17261479 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
DeWalt DA, Pignone MP. Reading is fundamental: the relationship between literacy and health. Arch Intern Med. 2005 Sep 26;165(17):1943-4. No abstract available. PMID: 16186462 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Lee, Shoou-Yih D.; Arozullah, Ahsan M.; Cho, Young Ik; Crittenden, Kathleen; Vicencio, Daniel. Health Literacy, Social Support, and Health Status Among Older Adults. Educational Gerontology, Mar2009, Vol. 35 Issue 3, p191-201, 11p; DOI: 10.1080/03601270802466629; (AN 36424747)
Levinthal BR, Morrow DG, Tu W, Wu J, Murray MD. Cognition and health literacy in patients with hypertension. J Gen Intern Med. 2008 Aug;23(8):1172-6. Epub 2008 May 6. PMID: 18459011 [PubMed - in process]
Lillie SE, Brewer NT, O'Neill SC, Morrill EF, Dees EC, Carey LA, Rimer BK. Retention and use of breast cancer recurrence risk information from genomic tests: the role of health literacy. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2007 Feb;16(2):249-55. Epub 2007 Jan 30. PMID: 17267389 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Miller DP Jr, Brownlee CD, McCoy TP, Pignone MP. The effect of health literacy on knowledge and receipt of colorectal cancer screening: a survey study. BMC Fam Pract. 2007 Mar 30;8:16. PMID: 17394668 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Morrow D, Clark D, Tu W, Wu J, Weiner M, Steinley D, Murray MD. Correlates of health literacy in patients with chronic heart failure. Gerontologist. 2006 Oct;46(5):669-76. PMID: 17050758 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Murray M, Tu W, Wu J, Morrow D, Smith F, Brater D. Factors Associated With Exacerbation of Heart Failure Include Treatment Adherence and Health Literacy Skills. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2009 Mar 4. PMID: 19262464 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Pignone MP, DeWalt DA. Literacy and health outcomes: is adherence the missing link? J Gen Intern Med. 2006 Aug;21(8):896-7. No abstract available. PMID: 16881956 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Roper WL, Tolleson-Rinehart S. Health care data and health: from numbers to outcomes. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2001 Aug-Sep;10(5):363-6. No abstract available. PMID: 11802577 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Rothman R, Malone R, Bryant B, Dewalt D, Pignone M. Health literacy and diabetic control. JAMA. 2002 Dec 4;288(21):2687-8. No abstract available. PMID: 12460089 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Rothman R, Malone R, Bryant B, Horlen C, DeWalt D, Pignone M. The relationship between literacy and glycemic control in a diabetes disease-management program. Diabetes Educ. 2004 Mar-Apr;30(2):263-73. PMID: 15095516 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Rosenthal MS, Socolar RR, DeWalt DA, Pignone M, Garrett J, Margolis PA. Parents with low literacy report higher quality of parent-provider relationships in a residency clinic. Ambul Pediatr. 2007 Jan-Feb;7(1):51-5. PMID: 17261483 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Sleath BL, Jackson E, Thomas KC, Galloway J, Dumain L, Thorpe J, Rollins A, Morrissey J. Literacy and perceived barriers to medication taking among homeless mothers and their children. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2006 Feb 15;63(4):346-51. PMID: 16452520 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Applications of Health Literacy Concepts in Practice
Dewalt DA, Pignone MP. The role of literacy in health and health care. Am Fam Physician. 2005 Aug 1;72(3):387-8. No abstract available. PMID: 16100854 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Holmes M, Bacon TJ, Dobson LA, McGorty EK, Silberman P, DeWalt D, Moeykens B, Plescia M, Verbiest S, White A. Addressing health literacy through improved patient-practitioner communication. N C Med J. 2007 Sep-Oct;68(5):319-26. Review. No abstract available. PMID: 18183750 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Lobach DF, Arbanas JM, Mishra DD, Campbell M, Wildemuth BM. Adapting the human-computer interface for reading literacy and computer skill to facilitate collection of information directly from patients. Medinfo. 2004;11(Pt 2):1142-6. PMID: 15360991 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Morrow DG, Weiner M, Steinley D, Young J, Murray MD. Patients' health literacy and experience with instructions: influence preferences for heart failure medication instructions. J Aging Health. 2007 Aug;19(4):575-93. PMID: 17682075 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Pignone MP, DeWalt DA. Health literacy and heart failure care in minority communities. Ann Intern Med. 2007 Feb 20;146(4):312; author reply 312. No abstract available. PMID: 17310058 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Pignone M, DeWalt D. Quality improvement strategies for type 2 diabetes. JAMA. 2006 Dec 13;296(22):2680-1; author reply 2681. No abstract available. PMID: 17164451 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Seligman HK, Wallace AS, DeWalt DA, Schillinger D, Arnold CL, Shilliday BB, Delgadillo A, Bengal N, Davis TC. Facilitating behavior change with low-literacy patient education materials. Am J Health Behav. 2007 Sep-Oct;31 Suppl 1:S69-78. PMID: 17931139 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Wilson CM, Rimer BK, Bennett DJ, Engstrom PF, Kane-Williams E, White J. Educating the older cancer patient: obstacles and opportunities. Health Educ Q. 1984 Spring;10 Suppl:76-87. PMID: 6706619 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Health Literacy Measurement
Bender DE, McCann MF. Validation of self-report of literacy among periurban women in Bolivia. Int J Epidemiol. 1993 Aug;22(4):747-8. PMID: 8225752 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
DeWalt DA, Rothrock N, Yount S, Stone AA; PROMIS Cooperative Group. Evaluation of item candidates: the PROMIS qualitative item review. Med Care. 2007 May;45(5 Suppl 1):S12-21. PMID: 17443114 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Langer MM, Hill CD, Thissen D, Burwinkle TM, Varni JW, DeWalt DA. Item response theory detected differential item functioning between healthy and ill children in quality-of-life measures. J Clin Epidemiol. 2008 Mar;61(3):268-76. Epub 2007 Sep 14. PMID: 18226750 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Lee SY, Bender DE, Ruiz RE, Cho YI. Development of an easy-to-use Spanish Health Literacy test. Health Serv Res. 2006 Aug;41(4 Pt 1):1392-412. PMID: 16899014 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Lee JY, Rozier RG, Lee SY, Bender D, Ruiz RE. Development of a word recognition instrument to test health literacy in dentistry: the REALD-30--a brief communication. J Public Health Dent. 2007 Spring;67(2):94-8. PMID: 17557680 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Rothman RL, Malone R, Bryant B, Wolfe C, Padgett P, DeWalt DA, Weinberger M, Pignone M. The Spoken Knowledge in Low Literacy in Diabetes scale: a diabetes knowledge scale for vulnerable patients. Diabetes Educ. 2005 Mar-Apr;31(2):215-24. PMID: 15797850 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Walsh TR, Irwin DE, Meier A, Varni JW, Dewalt DA. The use of focus groups in the development of the PROMIS pediatrics item bank. Qual Life Res. 2008 Apr 22; [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 18427951 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Weiss BD, Mays MZ, Martz W, Castro KM, DeWalt DA, Pignone MP, Mockbee J, Hale FA. Quick assessment of literacy in primary care: the newest vital sign. Ann Fam Med. 2005 Nov-Dec;3(6):514-22. Erratum in: Ann Fam Med. 2006 Jan-Feb;4(1):83. PMID: 16338915 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Interventions
DeWalt DA, Malone RM, Bryant ME, Kosnar MC, Corr KE, Rothman RL, Sueta CA, Pignone MP. A heart failure self-management program for patients of all literacy levels: a randomized, controlled trial [ISRCTN11535170]. BMC Health Serv Res. 2006 Mar 13;6:30. PMID: 16533388 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
DeWalt DA, Pignone M, Malone R, Rawls C, Kosnar MC, George G, Bryant B, Rothman RL, Angel B. Development and pilot testing of a disease management program for low literacy patients with heart failure. Patient Educ Couns. 2004 Oct;55(1):78-86. PMID: 15476993 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Pignone M, DeWalt DA, Sheridan S, Berkman N, Lohr KN. Interventions to improve health outcomes for patients with low literacy. A systematic review. J Gen Intern Med. 2005 Feb;20(2):185-92. Review. PMID: 15836553 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Rothman RL, DeWalt DA, Malone R, Bryant B, Shintani A, Crigler B, Weinberger M, Pignone M. Influence of patient literacy on the effectiveness of a primary care-based diabetes disease management program. JAMA. 2004 Oct 13;292(14):1711-6. PMID: 15479936 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]