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）：怀孕和早期养育孩子的特点是对健康信息的高度需求、对学习和改变的高度准备以及首次使用重要的健康服务；在这个时期，母亲的识字技能和功能性健康素养的消极和积极影响都会传递给她们的孩子，并产生终生的影响。该项目的目的是研究家访对孕产妇功能性健康素养的影响及其影响机制，即对弱势母亲在健康领域实现最佳功能水平的进展的影响。 在全国范围内，已建立的母婴健康家访计划为缺乏资源、社会支持和识字技能的弱势家庭提供服务，以使其在怀孕和早期育儿期间的健康领域发挥良好作用。这些家访计划可能被证明是一种有效、高效的渠道，可以提高面临风险的家庭的主要健康决策者的功能性健康素养。 迫切需要能够测量功能性健康素养功能的仪器，以超越目前对阅读能力的关注，以提高对健康素养的理解。该项目开发并验证功能性健康素养量表，以更好地了解和促进母亲在医疗保健系统和家庭健康环境中实现更高功能的进步。