ASPO Abstracts
Limited health literacy in Hispanic caregivers of pediatric cancer patients: Associations with the social determinants of health
Category: Cancer Health Disparities
Conference Year: 2023
Abstract Body:
Purpose: Health literacy (HL) is understudied in caregivers of children with cancer. HL refers to how well individuals can find and use information and services to make health decisions. Our primary aim was to describe HL in caregivers of children and adolescents with newly diagnosed cancer and its associations with ethnicity and other social determinants of health. Our secondary aim was to determine if the Newest Vital Sign (NVS) correlates with the Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (S- TOFHLA), the "gold standard
Keywords: health literacy, disparities, Hispanics, SDOH