SOS Mnemonic for Screening Patients for Limited Health Literacy
| Mnemonic | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Question Topic | Letter | Category | Thresholda |
| a Answers that may indicate a problem with health literacy. | |||
| b Single-Item Literacy Screener.37 | |||
| Educational attainment | S | The person’s Schooling is … | … Sub-Secondary. |
| Self-rated reading ability | O | The person’s Opinion of his or her reading ability is that … | … he or she is Only an Okay reader. |
| Help needed when readingb | S | When the person reads health-related materials, Support is … | … Sometimes Solicited. |