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- Title
BRIEF REPORT A Shortened Instrument for Literacy Screening.
- Authors
Bass III, Pat F.; Wilson, John F.; Griffith, Charles H.
- Abstract
The Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM-R), a new 8-item instrument designed to rapidly screen patients for potential health literacy problems, was administered to 157 patients. The REALM-R was correlated with Wide Range Achievement Test-Revised (WRAT-R) (.64) and demonstrated a Cronbach's α of 0.91. The REALM-R identified 26 of 30 persons scoring more than 1 standard deviation below the mean on the WRAT-R, corresponding to a sixth grade reading level. The REALM-R identified a substantial number of people who scored poorly on the WRAT-R, and depending on further studies of validity and reliability, may offer a practical approach to identify patients at risk for health literacy problems in a clinical setting. J GEN INTERN MED 2003; 18:1036–1038.
- Publication
JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2003, Vol 18, Issue 12, p1036
- ISSN
0884-8734
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1111/j.1525-1497.2003.10651.x