%0 Journal Article
%T Workshop series for occupational therapists using the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality¡¯s Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit and other supported tools
%A Ingrid M Provident
%A Virginia E Koenig
%J Health Education Journal
%@ 1748-8176
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0017896918820067
%X Health literacy is the ability to access, understand, evaluate and communicate information in a manner that promotes, maintains and improves health care in a variety of settings across the life span. Health professionals, including occupational therapists (OTs), need to consider health literacy in order to optimise client-centred interventions that promote self-management of chronic conditions, health and wellness. The goal of this small-scale cohort study was to determine if a health literacy workshop series for OTs could improve their working knowledge of health literacy, and increase their self-perceived ability to identify, assess and implement client-centred interventions to at-risk patients. Over a 6-week period, six OT professionals participated in a customised workshop series, incorporating elements of the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality¡¯s (AHRQ) Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit (the Toolkit) and other AHRQ-supported health literacy resources. A one-group, pre¨Cposttest mixed methods design was used to measure outcomes. Results of this study suggests that participation in a health literacy education programme featuring the Toolkit and other AHRQ-supported tools can improve OTs¡¯ self-perceived ability to identify, assess and provide client-centred services to their patients. Responses to open-ended questions both pre-and post-intervention align with the literature in that health care professionals, like OTs, can benefit from customised health literacy training to improve client-centred care by implementing specific health literacy strategies into their clinical practice
%K Client-centred approaches
%K health literacy
%K occupational performance
%K occupational therapy
%K universal precautions
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0017896918820067