Health Literacy and Heart Failure Care in Minority Communities

Letters20 February 2007Health Literacy and Heart Failure Care in Minority CommunitiesPaul L. Hebert, PhD and Jane E. Sisk, PhDPaul L. Hebert, PhDFrom Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, and the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, Maryland.Search for more papers by this author and Jane E. Sisk, PhDFrom Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, and the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, Maryland.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-146-4-200702200-00015 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail IN RESPONSE: We appreciate Drs. Pignone and DeWalt's comments. In our trial, we measured patients' health literacy, however, not general literacy. These concepts differ considerably. In preliminary analyses, we found no evidence that low health literacy was correlated with the effectiveness of nurse management in terms of either of the primary outcomes of physical functioning or all-cause hospitalization. Specifically, we measured physical function by using the Short Form-12 (SF-12) physical component score, which we obtained at baseline and every 3 months through the end of the intervention at 12 months. We estimated a linear regression of the change in SF-12 ... Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: From Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, and the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, Maryland.Disclosures: None disclosed. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsSee AlsoEffects of Nurse Management on the Quality of Heart Failure Care in Minority Communities Jane E. Sisk , Paul L. Hebert , Carol R. Horowitz , Mary Ann McLaughlin , Jason J. Wang , and Mark R. Chassin Health Literacy and Heart Failure Care in Minority Communities Michael P. Pignone and Darren A. DeWalt Metrics Cited ByHealth Literacy in Older Latinos With Heart FailureMultisite Randomized Trial of a Single-Session Versus Multisession Literacy-Sensitive Self-Care Intervention for Patients With Heart FailureQualidade de vida relacionada à Saúde em Idosos com Insuficiência cardíaca: avaliação com instrumento específicoComparison of a one-time educational intervention to a teach-to-goal educational intervention for self-management of heart failure: design of a randomized controlled trial 20 February 2007Volume 146, Issue 4Page: 312KeywordsConflicts of interestHealth statisticsHeart failureHospitalizationsLiteracyNursesPhysical functioningPopulation statistics ePublished: 20 February 2007 Issue Published: 20 February 2007 CopyrightCopyright © 2007 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF DownloadLoading ...