Question

4. Identify and describe five guidelines to simplify written educational materials for clients with low literacy skills?

Answer 1

Answer :- Health literacy is defined as the “capacity to obtain, interpret, and understand basic health information and services and the competence to use such information and services to enhance health. The guidelines to simplify written educational materials for clients with low literacy skills are,

1.use short sentences

2.Limit medical jargon

3.Avoid ambiguous words

4.select familiar words and use them consistently

5.Instead of real numbers, when conveying statistics use words a like "half", ''one-third''.

6.Avoids symbols and quotation marks.