Does Home Visitation Promote Maternal Health Literacy?

家访能否提高孕产妇健康素养？

• 批准号: 7136039
• 负责人: SANDRA Ann Bellinghausen SMITH
• 金额: $ 6.3万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-29 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7136039
• 关键词: awareness; behavior prediction; behavioral /social science research tag; data collection methodology /evaluation; educationally disadvantaged; health; health behavior; health care service evaluation; health services research tag; home health care; human data; learning; maternal behavior; medically underserved population; mother /infant health care; mother child interaction; reading; women' s health

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Pregnancy and early parenting is a time characterized by high need for health information, high readiness to learn and change, and first-time use of significant health services; a time when both the negative and positive effects of mothers' literacy skills and functional health literacy pass to their children with lifelong consequences. The purpose of this project is to examine the influence - and the mechanisms of influence -of home visitation on maternal functional health literacy, that is, on disadvantaged mothers' progress toward optimal levels of functioning in the health arena. Across the country, established maternal-child health home visitation programs serve vulnerable families who lack resources, social supports and literacy skills to function well in the health arena during pregnancy and early parenting. These home visitation programs could prove to be an effective, efficient channel to promote functional health literacy among the primary health decision makers in growing families at risk. Instruments that can measure the function in functional health literacy are urgently needed to improve understanding of health literacy beyond the current focus on reading ability. This project develops and validates functional health literacy scales to better understand and promote mothers' progress toward higher functioning in the healthcare system and in health contexts at home.

描述（由申请人提供）：怀孕和早期育儿的时间是对健康信息的高需求，学习和改变的高度准备以及首次使用大量保健服务的时间；这是母亲识字能力和功能健康素养的负面影响和积极影响都带给孩子终身后果的时期。该项目的目的是研究对母亲功能健康素养的影响以及影响力的影响，也就是说，在弱势母亲方面，朝着健康领域的最佳功能水平方面的进步。 在全国范围内，建立的母子健康家庭探视计划为缺乏资源，社会支持和识字能力的弱势家庭服务，无法在怀孕和早期育儿期间在卫生领域发挥良好功能。这些家庭探视计划可能被证明是一个有效的，有效的渠道，可以在不断增长的家庭中促进主要健康决策者的功能健康素养。 迫切需要迫切需要在功能健康素养中衡量功能的工具，以提高对健康素养的理解，超出当前对阅读能力的关注。该项目开发并验证了功能性健康素养量表，以更好地理解和促进母亲在医疗保健系统和家庭健康环境中的更高功能方面的进步。