title: Health literacy education and training: a student-professional collaboration.
abstract: A Healthy People 2010 objective is to improve the health literacy of persons with inadequate or marginal literacy skills. We designed a nutrition education module for dietetics students that allowed learning about health literacy while teaching this information to interested practitioners. Students designed a workshop for nutritionists by conducting a learning needs assessment and then developing learning objectives, content/methods, and process/outcome objectives. Students presented interactive sessions on using literacy assessment tools and developing low-literacy education materials. Handout packets included a list of relevant literacy Web sites. Evaluations unanimously rated the workshop as excellent or good. By helping teach others, students' learning experience was enhanced.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA.
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Cotugna
authors.forename: Connie E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Vickery
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004046:Dietetics / Q000193:education*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D040361:Healthy People Programs; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D020380:Needs Assessment; D052756:Nutritional Sciences / Q000193:education*; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D016730:Program Development; D013334:Students; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods; D014481:United States