Article on Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool

Article on Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool

Article Published on Testing of AHRQ Tool that  Assesses Patient Education Materials AHRQ’s Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT)  helps health professionals and others select educational materials  that are easy for patients to understand and use. The tool’s reliability  and validity testing is discussed in a recent journal article,  “Development of the Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool  (PEMAT): A new measure of understandability and actionability for  print and audiovisual patient information.” Published in the September issue of Patient Education and Counseling,  this article is freely available until October 15th at: http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1PaLK_GoWni7Cf.  The PEMAT and Users’ Guide—along with PEMAT auto-scoring forms— are available at: http://www.ahrq.gov/pemat. A user-friendly tool that  requires no training beyond reading the User’s Guide, the PEMAT is  the first tool to measure whether materials are actionable as well  as understandable. The PEMAT can be used for audio-visual as  well as print materials.