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Lay Worker Health Literacy: A Concept Analysis and Operational Definition
Author(s) -
Cadman Kathleen Paco
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
nursing forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.618
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1744-6198
pISSN - 0029-6473
DOI - 10.1111/nuf.12203
Subject(s) - cohesion (chemistry) , health literacy , intersection (aeronautics) , formal concept analysis , process (computing) , literacy , articulation (sociology) , psychology , computer science , knowledge management , social psychology , pedagogy , political science , engineering , health care , politics , algorithm , law , aerospace engineering , operating system , chemistry , organic chemistry
The concept of lay worker health literacy is created by concurrently analyzing and synthesizing two intersecting concepts, lay workers and health literacy. Articulation of this unique intersection is the result of implementing a simplified Wilson's Concept Analysis Procedure. This process incorporates the following components: a) selecting a concept, b) determining the aims/purposes of analysis, c) identifying all uses of the concept, d) determining defining attributes, e) identifying a model case, f) identifying borderline, related, contrary, and illegitimate cases, g) identifying antecedents and consequences, and h) defining empirical referents. Furthermore, as current literature provides no operational definition for lay worker health literacy, one is created to contribute cohesion to the concept.