About the Study

Health Literacy and Cancer Prevention: Do People Understand What They Hear?

This 5-year study is a core project of the CRN 3. The multi-disciplinary team includes investigators from five CRN sites and external collaborators. Over 1,000 health plan members from four CRN sites have completed the two new health literacy tests and a variety of other measures. These data, in conjunction with clinical data extracted from the CRN’s virtual data warehouse, provide the foundation for a series of studies exploring the relationship between health literacy and cancer prevention.

The New Health Literacy Tests

Using a careful test development process, the team has developed a pair of complementary tests to measure adults’ comprehension of both spoken and written messages related to cancer prevention and screening.

The CMLT-Listening is self-administered via a touchscreen laptop computer. No reading is required. It includes 45 items and takes approximately 1 hour.

The CMLT-Reading is self-administered on paper. It includes 21 items and takes approximately 10 minutes.

For More information on these tests, please visit our CMLT page

Interested in Collaborating?

The Health Literacy Team welcomes discussion about possible collaboration. We currently have a wealth of data on over 1,000 adult health plan members from 4 states (Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, and Massachusetts). In addition to scores on the two new health literacy tests (the CMLT-Listening and the CMLT-Reading) we have data on the following variables:

For more information on the data we have available please see our Data Available page

For a listing of our investigators and collaborators, please visit our Collaborator Bios page.