Increasing Nutrition Literacy: Testing the Effectiveness of Print, Web site, and Game Modalities

Silk, Kami J.; Sherry, John F.; Winn, Brian; Keesecker, Nicole M.; Horodynski, Mildred A.; Sayir, Aylin

doi:10.1016/j.jneb.2007.08.012

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“…Patients who had higher vegetable intake reported higher health literacy scores and this relationship has been identified in previous research. 23 The converse was observed for fruit intake however. The lack of consistent results for self-reporting fruit/vegetable consumption potentially highlights an issue where patients report expected rather than real intake.…”

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Health literacy screening of patients attending a student-led osteopathy clinic: A pilot investigation

Vaughan

Mulcahy

Fitzgerald

2016

Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice

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Adequate levels of health literacy (HL) are required for patients to access appropriate health services and develop an understanding of the options for managing their healthcare needs. There is limited literature on HL of patients seeking care for a musculoskeletal complaint. The present study sought to screen the HL of patients presenting to an Australian osteopathy student-led clinic using a single screening question 'Are you confident completing medical forms?'. Less than 10% of patients attending the clinic were considered to have below adequate levels of HL using this question, consistent with other work in Australian populations. Logistic regression analysis identified that the most significant demographic variables associated with lower HL were patients who did not speak English at home, those with lower education levels, and those who were less satisfied with their life. Evaluation of a patients' HL may assist practitioners to improve patient education and management strategies.

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Section: Accepted Manuscriptmentioning

confidence: 93%

Health literacy screening of patients attending a student-led osteopathy clinic: A pilot investigation

Vaughan

Mulcahy

Fitzgerald

2016

Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice

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“…Health literacy is claimed to be a stronger predictor of health than age, income, employment, education and cultural background (3) . Nutrition literacy, being an important dimension of people's health literacy, has been defined as 'the ability to find and elaborate on nutrition information and make conclusions regarding health issues' (4,5) . There are three major domains of nutrition literacy, which are referred to as functional nutrition literacy (FNL), interactive nutrition literacy (INL) and critical nutrition literacy (CNL) (5) .…”

Section: Domains Of Nutrition Literacy and The Engagement In Dietary mentioning

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Young adolescents’ engagement in dietary behaviour – the impact of gender, socio-economic status, self-efficacy and scientific literacy. Methodological aspects of constructing measures in nutrition literacy research using the Rasch model

Guttersrud

Petterson

2015

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: The present study validates a revised scale measuring individuals' level of the 'engagement in dietary behaviour' aspect of 'critical nutrition literacy' and describes how background factors affect this aspect of Norwegian tenth-grade students' nutrition literacy. Design: Data were gathered electronically during a field trial of a standardised sample test in science. Test items and questionnaire constructs were distributed evenly across four electronic field-test booklets. Data management and analysis were performed using the RUMM2030 item analysis package and the IBM SPSS Statistics 20 statistical software package. Setting: Students responded on computers at school. Subjects: Seven hundred and forty tenth-grade students at twenty-seven randomly sampled public schools were enrolled in the field-test study. The engagement in dietary behaviour scale and the self-efficacy in science scale were distributed to 178 of these students. Results: The dietary behaviour scale and the self-efficacy in science scale came out as valid, reliable and well-targeted instruments usable for the construction of measurements. Conclusions: Girls and students with high self-efficacy reported higher engagement in dietary behaviour than other students. Socio-economic status and scientific literacy -measured as ability in science by applying an achievement test -did not correlate significantly different from zero with students' engagement in dietary behaviour. Keywords Critical nutrition literacy Dietary behaviours Rasch modelling Quantitative researchThe ultimate goals of public health nutrition research are to describe nutrition-related public health issues by applying valid and reliable instruments and enabling citizens and policy makers to take advantage of the findings. The present Norwegian study is a quantitative study aimed at describing and understanding, using reliable and valid measures, tenth-grade students' attitudes towards nutrition-related public health issues. The first objective is to validate a revised scale assessing individuals' engagement in dietary behaviour at the personal, social and global level (1) . The second objective is to describe how different factors affect responses to the engagement in the dietary behaviour scale.

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“…Their intervention was successful at improving dietary choices. Silk et al examined the effectiveness of print, a website, and a computer game to impact nutrition education in a group of female adults with the website and game modalities faring better than print on attention, and the website ranking highest among the three modalities for attention, understanding of content, learning, and intent to use for additional information [37]. The authors note that the results may be indicative of the preferences of the audience and the appropriateness of games in the domain of the study.…”

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Small is Big: Interactive Trumps Passive Information in Breaking Information Barriers and Impacting Behavioral Antecedents

2016

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The wealth of information available on seemingly every topic creates a considerable challenge both for information providers trying to rise above the noise and discerning individuals trying to find relevant, trustworthy information. We approach this information problem by investigating how passive versus interactive information interventions can impact the antecedents of behavior change using the context of solar energy adoption, where persistent information gaps are known to reduce market potential. We use two experiments to investigate the impact of both passive and interactive approaches to information delivery on the antecedents (attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control in the Theory of Planned Behavior) of intentions and behavior, as well as their effect on intentions and behavior directly. The passive information randomized control trial delivered via Amazon Mechanical Turk tests the effectiveness of delivering the same content in a single message versus multiple shorter messages. The interactive information delivery uses an online (mobile and PC) trivia-style gamification platform. Both experiments use the same content and are carried out over a two-week time period. Our findings suggest that interactive, gamified information has greater impact than passive information, and that shorter multiple messages of passive information are more effective than a single passive message.

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Increasing Nutrition Literacy: Testing the Effectiveness of Print, Web site, and Game Modalities

Cited by 218 publications

References 15 publications

Health literacy screening of patients attending a student-led osteopathy clinic: A pilot investigation

Health literacy screening of patients attending a student-led osteopathy clinic: A pilot investigation

Young adolescents’ engagement in dietary behaviour – the impact of gender, socio-economic status, self-efficacy and scientific literacy. Methodological aspects of constructing measures in nutrition literacy research using the Rasch model

Small is Big: Interactive Trumps Passive Information in Breaking Information Barriers and Impacting Behavioral Antecedents

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