Association of Health Literacy and Numeracy With Lupus Knowledge and the Creation of the Lupus Knowledge Assessment Test.
Mithu MaheswaranathanAmanda M EudyAnn Cameron BarrCatherine HoweJayanth DossRebecca E SadunLisa G Criscione-SchreiberKai SunEliana M PerrinStacy C BaileySusan N HastingsMegan E B ClowseJennifer L RogersPublished in: The Journal of rheumatology (2022)
Patients with SLE with limited health literacy had lower knowledge about SLE. The LKAT could be further refined and/or used as a screening tool to identify patients with knowledge gaps. Further work is needed to improve patients' understanding of proteinuria and investigate whether literacy-sensitive education can improve care.