BMC Health Services Research, 2023 Background Health information is less effective when it does not meet the health literacy needs of its consumers. For health organisations, assessing the appropriateness of their existing health information resources is a key step to addressing this ...
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Challenges and Opportunities: What Can We Learn from Patients Living with Chronic Musculoskeletal Conditions, Health Professionals and Carers about the Concept of Health Literacy Using Qualitative Methods of Inquiry? [PDF]
, 2013 The field of health literacy continues to evolve and concern public health researchers and yet remains a largely overlooked concept elsewhere in the healthcare system.
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Improving readability of informed consents for research at an academic medical institution
Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2017 IntroductionThe final rule for the protection of human subjects requires that informed consent be “in language understandable to the subject” and mandates that “the informed consent must be organized in such a way that facilitates comprehension.” This ...
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New Perspectives on Picture Books [PDF]
Athens Journal of Education, 2017 The use of picture books has been illuminated as a potential to address important topics such as STEM, fluency, and social justice. Unique genres such as hybrid texts and wordless picture books are also worth considering for instruction.
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Developing predictive models of health literacy. [PDF]
, 2009 IntroductionLow health literacy (LHL) remains a formidable barrier to improving health care quality and outcomes. Given the lack of precision of single demographic characteristics to predict health literacy, and the administrative burden and inability of
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HLRP: Health Literacy Research and Practice, 2018 Comment article.
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Electronic health literacy in Swiss-German parents : cross-sectional study of eHealth literacy scale unidimensionality [PDF]
, 2020 Parents often use digital media to search for information related to their children's health. As the quantity and quality of digital sources meant specifically for parents expand, parents' digital health literacy is increasingly important to process the ...
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The association of health literacy with adherence in older 2 adults, and its role in interventions: a systematic meta-review [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Low health literacy is a common problem among older adults. It is often suggested to be associated with poor adherence. This suggested association implies a need for effective adherence interventions in low health literate people.
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A theory-based self-report measure of health literacy: The Calgary Charter on Health Literacy scale
Methodological Innovations, 2018 We set out to test a theory-based measure of health literacy. To do so, we included the newly developed Calgary Charter on Health Literacy scale in Pre- and Post-evaluation of the Life Enhancement Program at multiple sites. The program focusing on health
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Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2013 At a Morbidity and Mortality conference recently (M&M), I was presented with a patient who was rapidly decompensating in the intensive care unit, and a decision had to be made regarding CPR, including intubation. During the hospitalization just a few hours before this, the patient had been presented with this information and elected to undergo CPR,
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