Information to fight the flab: findings from the Net.Weight study [PDF]
, 2009 The purpose of the paper is to examine information use and information literacy in the context of weight management. It reports on a two-year study funded by the Department of Health known informally as the Net.Weight Study.
Carlin, Leslie +5 more
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Interventions for improving health literacy in people with chronic kidney disease [PDF]
, 2016 This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: This review aims to look at the benefits and harms of interventions for improving health literacy in patients with ...
Campbell, Katrina L. +6 more
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Redesigning pictographs for patients with low health literacy and establishing preliminary steps for delivery via smart phones. [PDF]
, 2016 BackgroundPictographs (or pictograms) have been widely utilized to convey medication related messages and to address nonadherence among patients with low health literacy.
Berry, Donna L +7 more
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Health Literacy in the Everyday Lives of Older Adults in Greece, Hungary, and the Netherlands [PDF]
, 2020 Health literacy (HL) encompasses someone’s knowledge and abilities to access and use health information in order to make appropriate health decisions in life. HL is particularly valuable in later life when health challenges grow.
Csizmadia, Peter +6 more
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Addressing health literacy in patient decision aids
, 2013 MethodsWe reviewed literature for evidence relevant to these two aims. When high-quality systematic reviews existed, we summarized their evidence.
Clayman, M.L. +8 more
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Patient empowerment in Flemish hospital wards : a cross-sectional study
, 2021 Objective: Measuring empowerment of patients on Flemish hospital wards by the short form of the Patient Activation Measure (PAM-13) and exploring the association between patient empowerment and patient-centred care, health literacy, patient- and context ...
Beeckman, Dimitri +5 more
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Health literacy: Results from a sample of Portuguese elderly people [PDF]
, 2015 CONTEXTO: O presente estudo insere-se no Projeto Literacia em Saúde: um desa!o na e para a terceira idade, !nanciado pela Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. OBJECTIVO(S): Tem como intuito avaliar o grau de literacia em saúde de uma amostra de pessoas idosas,
Serrão, Carla +2 more
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Wikipedia editing and information literacy: A case study [PDF]
, 2017 Purpose: This paper aims to evaluate the success of a Wikipedia editing assessment designed to improve the information literacy skills of a cohort of first-year undergraduate health sciences students.
Dawe, Lydia, Robinson, Ainslie
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Huli yanjiu, 2022 ObjectiveTo explore the urban-rural differences and influencing factors of the e⁃Health literacy level of community residents.MethodsA total of 452 rural community residents and 464 urban community' residents in Chengdu were enrolled in this study using ...
ZUO Qiantao +4 more
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Literacia para a Saúde, Obesidade e Hipertensão Arterial – Revisão Integrativa da Literatura [PDF]
, 2014 Resumo A literacia para a saúde está relacionada com o grau de escolaridade e implica o conhecimento, a motivação, as competências das pessoas em aceder, compreender e avaliar as informações da área da saúde para, assim, poderem tomar decisões sobre
Almeida, Dina +4 more
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