CCHP Final Exam| Questions Answered
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T/F the NAAL used texts/documents that weren't from real life-not in orginal format
Faulse-tasks were drawn from actual texts and documents
T/F the NAAL was multiple choice?
F-answers were written
T/F the question appeared before the material? Why?
T-wanted respondents to read with purpose
What is significant about the NAAL definiton of literacy>
Acknowldges that literacy goes beyond simply sounding out, recgonizing or understanding text
Central feature if that literacy is related to achiveing objective, for adults they often read
with purpose
What scale on the NAAL looked at the respondents ability to search, comprehend, and use
information from continuous texts? What are some examples?
Prose literacy-editoritals, news stories, brochures, instructional material
What scale on the NAAL looked at the respondents ability to read editotirals, news stories,
brochures, and instructional material? How can it be broken down further?
Prose literacty-broken down into expostiory, narrative, procedural and presuasive
What scale on the NAAL looked at the respondents abilityu to search, comprehend and
use information from non continous texts in various formats? What are some examples?
Document literacy
Job application, payroll forms, transportastion schedules, maps, and food/drug labels
,What scale on the NAAL looked at the respondents ability to read job applications, payroll
forms, transportation schedules, maps, and labels?
Document literacy
What scale on the NAAL looked at the respondents to identify and perform computations,
either alone or sequentially, using numbers embedded in printed material? What are some
examples?
Quantitative
Balancing a checkbook, figuring out a tip, completing an order form, determining amount
of interest on a loan from an advertisement
In addition to the NAAL literacy scale what was the breakdown of the health literacy
scale added to the 2003 exam?
12 prose, 12 document and 4 quantitative (28 total)
How were material selected for the health literacy part of the NAAL? Who reccomended it?
Materials were representative of real-world healthcare information including insurance info,
meidicne directions, and preventative care info
The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion within the US Department of health
and Human Services suggested material and questions be based on input from other HHS
agencies/stakeholders
What were the three domains of the NAAL health literacy scale? How many questions each?
Clinical domain-3
-activities associated with HC provider/Pt interaction, clinical encounters, diagnosis and
treatment of illness
Prevention-14
-activities in maintaining and improving health
-Disease prevention, intervening early
self-care/self management
Navigation of HC system-11
-activities related to understanding how health care system works and individual rights
and responsibilities
,What domain of the NAAL would be filling out Pt information forms, understanding dosing
instructions, and following health care providers recommendation for a diagnostic test?
Clinical domain
What domain would following guidelines for age-
appropriate preventive health services, identifying signs and
symptoms of health problems that should be
addressed with a health professional, and
understanding how eating and exercise habits decrease
risks for developing serious illness.
Prevntion domain
What domain of the NAAL would understanding what a health insurance
plan will and will not pay for, determining eligibility for public insurance or
assistance programs,
and being able to give informed consent for a
health care service
Navigation of health care system domain
T/F the health literacy scale in NAAL did NOT include tasks that did the fit the definition of
prose, document, or quantitative literacy, even if they were consistent with the definition
of health literacy used by Healthy people 2010
T
Did the NAAL health tasks require knoweldge of specalized heath terms?
NO
Did the NAAL health literacy scale measure ability to obtain information from non-print
sources?
No however did ask about it in background questionnaire
What did the background questionnaire for the NAAL include?
data about various demographics and background characteristics
-sections about health status, preventative health practices, health insurance coverage
and sources of information about health issues
What was not included on the background questionnaire in the NAAL for prisoners?
Questions about health insurance or Internet use
, What are performance levels?
Grouping adults with similar scores into relatively small number of categories
Used to describe, identify and chracterize the realitve strentgghs and weakness of adults falling
within various ranges
A health literacy task that was mapped to the proficient level on the prose scale would be
mapped to what on the health scale? NAAL
Proficient as well
What are the 4 overall literacy levels on the NAAL?
Below basic-indcaties no more than the most simple and concrete literacy skills
Basic
-indicates skills necessary to preform simple and everyday literacy activities
Intermediate
Indicates the skills necessary to preform moderately challenging literacy activities
Proficient
Skills necessary to perform more complex and challenging literacy activites
Someone who in below basic health literacy in prose, quantitative and document would...
locating easily identifiable information in short, commonplace prose texts
locating easily identifiable information and following written instructions in
simple documents (e.g., charts or forms)
locating numbers and using them to perform simple quantitative operations
(primarily addition) when the mathematical information is very concrete
and familiar
Someone who is basic health literacy in prose, quantitative and document would...
reading and understanding information in short, commonplace prose texts
reading and understanding information in simple documents
locating easily identifiable quantitative information and using it to solve simple,