Proposed Questions to Assess the Extent of Knowledge in Understanding the Radiology Report Language

Mohammad Alarifi, Abdulrahman M. Jabour, Min Wu, Abdullah Aldosary, Mansour Almanaa and Jake Luo ()
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Mohammad Alarifi: Health Informatics & Administration Department, College of Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA
Abdulrahman M. Jabour: Health Informatics Department, Faculty of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Jazan University, Jazan 45142, Saudi Arabia
Min Wu: Health Informatics & Administration Department, College of Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA
Abdullah Aldosary: Body Imaging Department, Medical Imaging Administration, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh 12231, Saudi Arabia
Mansour Almanaa: Radiological Sciences Department, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
Jake Luo: Health Informatics & Administration Department, College of Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 18, 1-14

Abstract: Radiotherapy and diagnostic imaging play a significant role in medical care. The amount of patient participation and communication can be increased by helping patients understand radiology reports. There is insufficient information on how to measure a patient’s knowledge of a written radiology report. The goal of this study is to design a tool that will measure patient literacy of radiology reports. A radiological literacy tool was created and evaluated as part of the project. There were two groups of patients: control and intervention. A sample radiological report was provided to each group for reading. After reading the report, the groups were quizzed to see how well they understood the report. The participants answered the questions and the correlation between the understanding of the radiology report and the radiology report literacy questions was calculated. The correlations between radiology report literacy questions and radiology report understanding for the intervention and control groups were 0.522, p < 0.001, and 0.536, p < 0.001, respectively. Our radiology literacy tool demonstrated a good ability to measure the awareness of radiology report understanding (area under the receiver operator curve in control group (95% CI: 0.77 (0.71–0.81)) and intervention group (95% CI: 0.79 (0.74–0.84))). We successfully designed a tool that can measure the radiology literacy of patients. This tool is one of the first to measure the level of patient knowledge in the field of radiology understanding.

Keywords: informatics; imaging informatics; patient awareness; radiology report (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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