Grant: Operating Grant
University of British Columbia
$803,004.00
Development and validation of Canadian health literacy measurement tool for chronic disease management
FY 2014-15
Summary
Within the context of health care, the importance of literacy is evident because all chronic disease management strategies require the transmission of information from caregivers and other sources to patients, and also because this transmission must be developed with an awareness of the potential presence of reduced HL levels in patients. Our aim is to develop and validate a HL tool that measures all five domains of HL, focusing on adult individuals with airway chronic diseases: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and asthma. We will accomplish our overall objective through five specific objectives: 1) extensive consultation with stakeholders (patients, health care professionals, HL researchers, key-informants) in order to develop an in-depth understanding of HL and identify important content for the tool, 2) development of an item pool, 3) collecting validity evidence based on content, response processes, and factor structure, 4) development of a final version of the tool, and 5) construct validation of the final tool. The ongoing involvement of stakeholders at all stages of this research is an important component of our proposed work.
Department
Program
Operating Grant
Recipient
Location
British Columbia, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
CIHR Funding Decisions Database
As published
Id
321912
Name
Fitzgerald J M
Region
British Columbia
Country
Canada
Orgtype
Institution Paid; Research Institution
Instname2
Health Services and Policy Research
Theme2
Health systems / services
Prcname2
Public, Community & Population Health 2
Projecttitle
Development and validation of Canadian health literacy measurement tool for chronic disease management
Programtype2
Operating Grants
Orgnameinp2
University of British Columbia
Cihramount2
$803,004
Cihrequipment2
$0
Programname2
Operating Grant
Keyworddelim
Chronic Disease Management; Conceptual Framework; Health Literacy; Knowledge Translation; Measurement Tool Development; Participatory Approaches; Population Health; Theoretical Model; Validation
Abstract
Within the context of health care, the importance of literacy is evident because all chronic disease management strategies require the transmission of information from caregivers and other sources to patients, and also because this transmission must be developed with an awareness of the potential presence of reduced HL levels in patients. Our aim is to develop and validate a HL tool that measures all five domains of HL, focusing on adult individuals with airway chronic diseases: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and asthma. We will accomplish our overall objective through five specific objectives: 1) extensive consultation with stakeholders (patients, health care professionals, HL researchers, key-informants) in order to develop an in-depth understanding of HL and identify important content for the tool, 2) development of an item pool, 3) collecting validity evidence based on content, response processes, and factor structure, 4) development of a final version of the tool, and 5) construct validation of the final tool. The ongoing involvement of stakeholders at all stages of this research is an important component of our proposed work.
Competitiondate
201503
Approvedterm2
5 yrs 0 mth
Pinamesdelim
Fitzgerald, J M; Kopec, Jacek A
Approvedterm
5 ans 0 mois
Cihrcontribution2
~ $803,004~ $0~
