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Emily J Goodwin1,2,3, Isabella Zaniletti4, Joy Solano1,2,3
1Children's Mercy Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri.
Hospital Pediatrics
|September 23, 2024
Summary
Parental health literacy impacts healthcare costs for children with medical complexity. While overall literacy wasn't linked to utilization, needing help with health materials significantly increased emergency and hospitalization expenses.
Area of Science:
- Pediatric Healthcare
- Health Literacy Research
- Healthcare Economics
Background:
- Health literacy significantly influences health decisions and outcomes.
- Inadequate health literacy is linked to health disparities and increased healthcare utilization.
- Children with medical complexity (CMC) frequently utilize acute care services.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the association between parental health literacy and acute care utilization and costs in children with medical complexity.
- To determine if parental ability to understand health materials affects healthcare spending for CMC.
Main Methods:
- A cross-sectional study involving parents of CMC receiving primary care.
- Parental health literacy assessed using the Single Item Literacy Screener.
- Acute care utilization (ED visits, hospitalizations) and costs were primary outcomes.
Main Results:
- Overall inadequate health literacy was not associated with acute care utilization or costs.
- However, CMC whose parents required assistance with health materials incurred significantly higher ED and hospitalization costs.
- Sensitivity analysis revealed a 188% increase in ED costs and 126% increase in hospitalization costs for these families.
Conclusions:
- Inadequate parental health literacy alone did not correlate with increased acute care use in CMC.
- Assistance needed for reading health materials by parents is associated with substantially higher healthcare costs for CMC.
- Further multicenter research is recommended to validate these findings.
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