Understanding health literacy for People Living with HIV: Locations of learning

Health literacy, including people's abilities to access, process, and comprehend health-related information, has become an important component in the management of complex and chronic diseases such as HIV infection. Clinical measures of health literacy that focus on patients' abilities to follow plans of care ignore the multi-dimensionality of health literacy. Our thematic analysis of 28 focus groups from a qualitative, multi-site, multi-national study exploring information practices of PLWH demonstrated the importance of location as a dimension of health literacy.

Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care - November 8, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Teri G. Lindgren, Darcel Reyes, Lucille Eller, Dean Wantland, Carmen Portillo, William L. Holzemer, Ellah Matshediso, Inge Corless, Jeanne Kemppainen, K. Dintle Mogobe, Allison Webel, Kathleen Nokes, Patrice Nicholas, Marta Rivero Mendez, Paula Reid, Soly Source Type: research