1. Making it Easy: Health Literacy Outcomes to improve social care
Wednesday 26th Oct.
Grassmarket Centre
Research is being planned to explore how we can improve communication between health professionals and patients to improve health literacy in Scotland.
Description of project/service/tool
Description
What will be discussed in the session
This work will aim to investigate whether health professionals in a specific area consider the health literacy needs of their patients when communicating with them.
The research will consider what they may already do to meet the communication needs of their patients and also explore to what extent people understand information about their condition, treatment, self management etc.
The session will include a brief introduction to current thoughts regarding the research then discussion:
How or if health professionals are addressing health literacy needs?
Do people feel that health literacy techniques such as teach back are used by health professionals
Communication issues( two ways versus one way)
Can we develop a checklist for both patients and HP?
Key points of interest
Further information
Health Literacy as a topic for research
To what extent health literacy tools are being used
Exploring how we can improve the communication process between health professionals and people they communicate with
The potential to develop a checklist
Name: Soha El-Batrawy
Role: Public Involvement Lead
Organisation: Fife Health Board
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