Jessica R Ridpath's research while affiliated with Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute and other places
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Publications (4)
Background/Aims Group Health Research Institute (GHRI) created the Program for Readability In Science & Medicine (PRISM) in 2005 to help overcome the well-documented problem of low readability among research consent forms and other print materials created for study participants. Since then, PRISM training and editing services have helped GHRI resea...
Improving health literacy is one key to buoying our nation's troubled health care system. As system-level health literacy improvement strategies take the stage among national priorities for health care, the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model of care emerges as a compelling avenue for their widespread implementation. With a shared focus on e...
Background/Aims: Limited health literacy negatively impacts health care costs, quality, and outcomes. Complex language and other communication barriers prevent 93 million U.S. adults from finding, understanding, and acting on essential health information—leading to medication and treatment errors, failure to seek preventive care or manage chronic i...
Synopsis
Communicating in lay language is an underdeveloped skill among many researchers—a limitation that contributes to low readability among research consent forms and may hinder participant understanding of study procedures and risks. We present the Project to Review and Improve Study Materials (PRISM) and its centerpiece, the PRISM Readability...
Citations
... Hing et al. (2011) investigated the criteria of manuscript selection for publication from the editor's viewpoint and found that one of the most important design factors considered for publication acceptance is that the manuscript be well written. Ridpath and Greene (2012) conducted a study to evaluate the effectiveness of a training program on English-language writing skills among health care researchers. The training was carried out with a toolkit called Program for Readability in Science & Medicine (PRISM), to enhance the writing abilities of researchers in scientific disciplines. ...
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... CALD populations often score below the national averages for health literacy (Murray et al., 2008). Without an adequate level of health literacy, CALD populations may encounter difficulty understanding health information, navigating health services, making treatment choices, and engaging in self-care for chronic disease management, further contributing to health disparities within this population (Hoffman-Goetz et al., 2014;Marshall et al., 2010;Ridpath et al., 2012). ...
... Participation in a breast health risk communication and decision support trial varied by women's demographic characteristics, specifically by age, race/ethnicity, and education. Despite study efforts to improve recruitment through plain language, 24,25 which supports readability of the study materials, accessible materials might be necessary, but not sufficient to achieve a representative sample. Hence, the results from our ongoing trial will reflect the underlying population who participated but might not reflect the behavior patterns observed if all women eligible had participated. ...
