These approaches are more suitable than conventional interviewing and surveying methods to collect information on sensitive and personal issues, such as sexual behaviors, particularly among low-literacy populations.
This index was constructed based on suitable life conditions, literacy, and youth vulnerability similar to that applied for the Human Development Index [ 11, 12].
Data on HIV knowledge was collected using the validated 18-item HIV Knowledge Questionnaire, which has been found to be internally consistent and suitable for low-literacy populations [15].
Our decision aids have been designed to be accessible to people with an average level of reading ability, and further work would be required to adapt the materials to ensure that they are suitable for lower-literacy groups and culturally diverse populations.
This was only 1 percentage point away from achieving an average score of "Superior," indicating that most materials were near suitable for low health literacy individuals.
While these methods will not be suitable for all health literacy studies, a neighbourhood-based estimate is appropriate for the hypotheses we tested and is the only feasible approach at this time.
Percentages were interpreted as follows: 70 100 % was for superior material that was suitable for low health literacy individuals, 40 69 % was for adequate material that may or may not be understood by low health literacy individuals, and 0 39 % was for not suitable material that would not be understood by low health literacy individuals.
The workshop manual presents basic parenting skills in a hands-on learning format suitable for any level of literacy.
Reducing the belief in weakness of character as a cause would be a suitable target for mental health literacy campaigns.
Although this data collection method is highly suitable for adults with low literacy, the personal telephone call may have encouraged participants to feel obliged to read and process the decision aid or control material.
