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| Title |
Development and validation of a measure of health literacy in the UK: the newest vital sign
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Public Health, February 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-13-116 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Gill Rowlands, Nina Khazaezadeh, Eugene Oteng-Ntim, Paul Seed, Suzanne Barr, Barry D Weiss |
| Abstract |
Health literacy (HL) is an important public health issue. Current measures have drawbacks in length and/or acceptability. The US-developed Newest Vital Sign (NVS) health literacy instrument measures both reading comprehension and numeracy skills using a nutrition label, takes 3 minutes to administer, and has proven to be acceptable to research subjects. This study aimed to amend and validate it for the UK population. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 12 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 42% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 33% |
| Sweden | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 2 | 17% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 8 | 67% |
| Scientists | 2 | 17% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 270 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Denmark | 2 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Greece | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 261 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 46 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 30 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 28 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 28 | 10% |
| Researcher | 24 | 9% |
| Other | 58 | 21% |
| Unknown | 56 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 65 | 24% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 47 | 17% |
| Social Sciences | 28 | 10% |
| Psychology | 12 | 4% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 8 | 3% |
| Other | 40 | 15% |
| Unknown | 70 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 February 2024.
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#3,300,166
of 25,328,635 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#3,950
of 16,982 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#33,306
of 295,943 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#50
of 278 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 16,982 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 76% of its peers.
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