Development of injury prevention materials for people with low literacy skills
Patient Education and CounselingPublished 12 June 2006
Lara B. Trifiletti, Wendy Shields, Eileen M. McDonald, Allen Walker, Andrea C. Gielen
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The development and evaluation of written injury prevention materials used in a PED-based intervention trial are presented and others designing similar interventions can use these methods to develop interventions for low literacy populations.
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When developing injury prevention materials for use with PED populations, health professionals should consider reading ability, reading level, content, and design of materials.
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