Health literacy practices in social virtual worlds and the influence on health behaviour [PDF]
, 2018 This study explored how health information accessed via a 3D social virtual world and the representation of ‘self’ through the use of an avatar impact physical world health behaviour. In-depth interviews were conducted in a sample of 25 people, across
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Current Oncology, 2022 Background: The novel coronavirus that has triggered the present COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread globally, resulting in widespread morbidity and mortality.
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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.
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On Curating Responsible and Representative Healthcare Video Recommendations for Patient Education and Health Literacy: An Augmented Intelligence Approach [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Studies suggest that one in three US adults use the Internet to diagnose or learn about a health concern. However, such access to health information online could exacerbate the disparities in health information availability and use. Health information seeking behavior (HISB) refers to the ways in which individuals seek information about their health ...
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Toward Improving Health Literacy in Patient Education Materials with Neural Machine Translation Models [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Health literacy is the central focus of Healthy People 2030, the fifth iteration of the U.S. national goals and objectives. People with low health literacy usually have trouble understanding health information, following post-visit instructions, and using prescriptions, which results in worse health outcomes and serious health disparities.
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Evidence-Based Programs & Measures Of Mental Health Literacy among Adolescents: A Narrative Research Review [PDF]
, 2020 Evidence-Based Programs & Measures Of Mental Health Literacy among Adolescents: A Narrative Research Review Roxana Naemi, Dept. of Psychology, Sabrina Hawa, & Chloe Walker, Dept. of Psychology Graduate Student, with Dr. Chelsea D. Williams, Dept.
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Neurocognitive impairment is associated with lower health literacy among persons living with HIV infection. [PDF]
, 2014 This study sought to determine the effects of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) on health literacy, which encompasses the ability to access, understand, appraise, and apply health-related information.
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Model of Empowerment to Improve Autonomy Directly Observed Treatment (DOT) Tuberculosis Patients [PDF]
, 2016 Empowerment as not yet optimal health promotion efforts done to enhance the autonomy of Directly Observed Treatment (DOT), which affect the success of the recovery of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis.
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Archives of Public Health, 2019 As a multi-faceted concept, health literacy concerns the capacities of people to meet the complex demands of health in a modern society, starting with basic skills and ending with active citizenship.
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YouTube Videos for Public Health Literacy? A Machine Learning Pipeline to Curate Covid-19 Videos [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the dire necessity to improve public health literacy for societal resilience. YouTube, the largest video-sharing social media platform, provides a vast repository of user-generated health information in a multi-media-rich format which may be easier for the public to understand and use if major concerns about ...
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