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Easy to Read Health Education Material Improves Oral Health Literacy of Older Adults in Rural Community-Based Care Centers: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Health education increases older adults’ health knowledge and affects their health outcomes. Older adults have physical changes with aging, such as blurred vision and cognitive decline. Therefore, health education materials must be legible in their case. This study, following the “easy (EZ) to read”...

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Autores principales: Sun, Kuo-Ting, Shieh, Tzong-Ming, Hsia, Shih-Min, Ningrum, Valendriyani, Lin, Xin-Yi, Shih, Yin-Hwa
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8624561/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34828511
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9111465
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author Sun, Kuo-Ting
Shieh, Tzong-Ming
Hsia, Shih-Min
Ningrum, Valendriyani
Lin, Xin-Yi
Shih, Yin-Hwa
author_facet Sun, Kuo-Ting
Shieh, Tzong-Ming
Hsia, Shih-Min
Ningrum, Valendriyani
Lin, Xin-Yi
Shih, Yin-Hwa
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description Health education increases older adults’ health knowledge and affects their health outcomes. Older adults have physical changes with aging, such as blurred vision and cognitive decline. Therefore, health education materials must be legible in their case. This study, following the “easy (EZ) to read” concept, designed oral health education material and tested the learning effectiveness of older adults in rural community-based care centers in central Taiwan. Three of the communities were provided EZ to read health education material (n = 72), while three were given general text material (n = 57) as the control group. We collected pre-test and post-test scores using the Mandarin version of the oral health literacy adult questionnaire (MOHL-AQ). The demographic background of the EZ to read and general text groups showed no significant difference (p > 0.05). Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) showed that the EZ to read material significantly improved total scores of oral health literacy (p < 0.001). The chi-square test showed a significant improvement in oral health literacy levels (p < 0.001). We suggest applying EZ to read concepts to widen the field of older adult education and to reduce illegibility-induced health knowledge disparities.
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spelling pubmed-86245612021-11-27 Easy to Read Health Education Material Improves Oral Health Literacy of Older Adults in Rural Community-Based Care Centers: A Quasi-Experimental Study Sun, Kuo-Ting Shieh, Tzong-Ming Hsia, Shih-Min Ningrum, Valendriyani Lin, Xin-Yi Shih, Yin-Hwa Healthcare (Basel) Article Health education increases older adults’ health knowledge and affects their health outcomes. Older adults have physical changes with aging, such as blurred vision and cognitive decline. Therefore, health education materials must be legible in their case. This study, following the “easy (EZ) to read” concept, designed oral health education material and tested the learning effectiveness of older adults in rural community-based care centers in central Taiwan. Three of the communities were provided EZ to read health education material (n = 72), while three were given general text material (n = 57) as the control group. We collected pre-test and post-test scores using the Mandarin version of the oral health literacy adult questionnaire (MOHL-AQ). The demographic background of the EZ to read and general text groups showed no significant difference (p > 0.05). Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) showed that the EZ to read material significantly improved total scores of oral health literacy (p < 0.001). The chi-square test showed a significant improvement in oral health literacy levels (p < 0.001). We suggest applying EZ to read concepts to widen the field of older adult education and to reduce illegibility-induced health knowledge disparities. MDPI 2021-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8624561/ /pubmed/34828511 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9111465 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Sun, Kuo-Ting
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Shih, Yin-Hwa
Easy to Read Health Education Material Improves Oral Health Literacy of Older Adults in Rural Community-Based Care Centers: A Quasi-Experimental Study
title Easy to Read Health Education Material Improves Oral Health Literacy of Older Adults in Rural Community-Based Care Centers: A Quasi-Experimental Study
title_full Easy to Read Health Education Material Improves Oral Health Literacy of Older Adults in Rural Community-Based Care Centers: A Quasi-Experimental Study
title_fullStr Easy to Read Health Education Material Improves Oral Health Literacy of Older Adults in Rural Community-Based Care Centers: A Quasi-Experimental Study
title_full_unstemmed Easy to Read Health Education Material Improves Oral Health Literacy of Older Adults in Rural Community-Based Care Centers: A Quasi-Experimental Study
title_short Easy to Read Health Education Material Improves Oral Health Literacy of Older Adults in Rural Community-Based Care Centers: A Quasi-Experimental Study
title_sort easy to read health education material improves oral health literacy of older adults in rural community-based care centers: a quasi-experimental study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8624561/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34828511
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9111465
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