American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Volume 31, Issue 5 , Pages 391-398, November 2006

Patient Understanding of Food Labels:

The Role of Literacy and Numeracy

  • Russell L. Rothman, MD, MPP

      Affiliations

    • Division of General Internal Medicine and Public Health, Center for Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee USA
    • Diabetes Research and Training Center, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence and reprint requests to: Russell Rothman, MD, MPP, Center for Health Services Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Suite 6000, Medical Center East, Nashville TN 37232-8300.
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  • Ryan Housam, BS

      Affiliations

    • University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland
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  • Hilary Weiss, BS

      Affiliations

    • Division of General Internal Medicine and Public Health, Center for Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee USA
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  • Dianne Davis, RD CDE

      Affiliations

    • Diabetes Research and Training Center, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee USA
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  • Rebecca Gregory, MS, RD CDE

      Affiliations

    • Diabetes Research and Training Center, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee USA
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  • Tebeb Gebretsadik, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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  • Ayumi Shintani, PhD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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  • Tom A. Elasy, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Division of General Internal Medicine and Public Health, Center for Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee USA
    • Diabetes Research and Training Center, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee USA

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 This project received support from the Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center (P60 DK020593-28). RLR currently receives funding support to perform research on the role of literacy and numeracy in diabetes from an NIH Career Award (K23 DK065294), the American Diabetes Association (Novo Nordisk Clinical Research Award), and the Pfizer Clear Health Communication Initiative.No financial conflict of interest was reported by the authors of this paper.

PII: S0749-3797(06)00281-9

doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2006.07.025

American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Volume 31, Issue 5 , Pages 391-398, November 2006

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