developing health education materials for low-literate adults
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Developing Health Education Materials for Low-Literate Adults
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Objectives
• Discuss profiles and prevalence of low literacy in the USA
• Describe the impact low literacy has on health care and foodservice industries
• Contract the difference between the traditional process of developing materials and the three-phase process
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Objectives, cont.
• Design appropriate steps for developing the first draft
• List characteristics of good illustrations to use with low literate adults
• Use the SMOG formula or Fry Chart to determine readability level of material
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Magnitude of Literacy Problem in USA
• 20% of adults cannot read or write to complete basis tasks
• 45 million can barely read• 1 of 8 employees reads on a 4th grade
level• 1 of 5 reads at the 8th grade level• Most materials are written at the 9-12th
grade level
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Literacy Skills
• Reading
• Writing
• Numeracy
• Document processing
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Functional Literacy
• Ability to:– Read at 4-6th grade level– Address envelop– Fill out forms
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Why is literacy a challenge for employers, supervisors, and
nutrition educators
?
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• Not enough qualified candidates to fill jobs because of low literacy - especially in hospitals and food service.
• Need to use materials designed for a lower literacy audience.
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What does it feel like to have limited literacy skills
?
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The Traditional Process for Developing Education Materials….
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The Three Phase Process….
1, 2, 3
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Phase 1
Planning
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Define Audience
• Age
• Gender
• Ethnicity
• Marriage status
• Geographic location
• Determine grade level
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Conduct Needs Assessment
• What do they want to know, not what we think they need
• Balance perspectives
• User friendly
• How to conduct assessment?– Personal interviews– Market surveys
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Write Learning Objectives
• Limit to 1 to 2 objectives
• Focus writing
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Confer with your peers.
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Phase 2
Development
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Strategic Organization
• Be consistent in format
• Put important information first or last– Summarize and repeat points often– Restate in different terms– Use repetition or a series
• Use one idea per page (or one at a time)
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Strategic Organization, cont.
• Be specific, concise and accurate
• Present examples
• Sequence logically– topic– step by step– chronologically
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Writing
• Be careful of cutesy phrases
• Use simple definitions of new words and repeat often
• Use active verbs, not passive
• Use positive statements
• Use words with single meanings
• Avoid contractions and acronyms
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Writing, cont.
• Use simple sentences– avoid semicolons, etc.
• Paragraphs should be short and to the point
• Repeat the main point throughout the paragraph– unrepeated information lasts 1/4 second to one
hour– repeated lasts 8 hours
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Illustrations
• Keep purposeful
• Place next to the text
• Remove extraneous detail
• Realistic full body
• Better to show only desired behavior
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Illustrations, cont.
• Don’t use distracting illustrations
• Placing concepts together in a box is an effective visual device
• Don’t get too clever or cute
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Font
• Optima or Helvetica best
• Contrast color with background
• Avoid serifs
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Format
• Use short explanatory headings
• Adequate white space and wide margins
• Right justified
• Recommend 45 letter columns
• Avoid lengthy lists
• Double space between paragraphs
• Do not indent
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Phase 3
Evaluation
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Readability
• Fry
• SMOG