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A Comprehensive Picture of Factors Affecting User Willingness to Use Mobile Health Applications [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
Mobile health (mHealth) applications have become increasingly valuable in preventive healthcare and in reducing the burden on healthcare organizations. The aim of this paper is to investigate the factors that influence user acceptance of mHealth apps and identify the underlying structure that shapes users' behavioral intention.
arxiv  

Literacy and health literacy - why they matter to health professionals

The Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles, 2016
Low literacy and low health literacy affect people in all demographic strata and interfere with patients’ abilities to understand and act on information provided by health careproviders. Many print health education materials are written at reading levels well above those recommended.
openaire   +3 more sources

Transition to Adult Care in Turner Syndrome: Research Gaps and Strategies for Achieving Success

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Health care transition is a process by which children with chronic medical conditions gradually and purposefully move from pediatric to adult‐centered health care systems. While transition guidelines have been published by multiple national and international organizations, transition processes have not been optimized for many populations ...
Leena Nahata, Franciska Verlinde, Kirstine Stochholm, Iris Gutmark‐Little   +3 more
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The effects of a short video intervention on digital health literacy skills: Protocol for an online randomised controlled trial

Health Literacy and Communication Open
Background Social media has transformed health communication and has an increasing influence on public health communication. There are growing concerns about how people find good quality health information online, and their ability to use, understand and
Diana Vassilenko, Melody Taba, Lucia Marcello, Tara Haynes, Jenna Smith, Jessica Stokes-Parish, Claire Hudson, Kirsten McCaffery   +7 more
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Equity and inclusivity in research: co-creation of a digital platform with representatives of marginalized populations to enhance the involvement in research of people with limited literacy skills

Research Involvement and Engagement, 2021
Plain English Summary People with limited literacy skills are often excluded from health research. Engaging patients and community members with limited literacy in research requires tailored approaches and methods that have been tried and tested with ...
Christine Loignon, Sophie Dupéré, Caroline Leblanc, Karoline Truchon, Amélie Bouchard, Johanne Arsenault, Julia Pinheiro Carvalho, Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, Sylvain Aimé Marcotte   +8 more
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Opportunities and challenges of mobile learning for promoting mathematical literacy [PDF]

arXiv, 2016
Mathematical literacy plays an important role in supporting individuals to fulfil their professional roles in modern society. The affordances of mobile technologies as well as the emergence of new theories in mobile learning have the potential to promote mathematical literacy.
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Assessing Sensitivity of Machine Learning Predictions.A Novel Toolbox with an Application to Financial Literacy [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
Despite their popularity, machine learning predictions are sensitive to potential unobserved predictors. This paper proposes a general algorithm that assesses how the omission of an unobserved variable with high explanatory power could affect the predictions of the model.
arxiv  

Varieties of digitalisation? A comparison of employment services digitalisation in the UK and Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the digitalisation of employment services in the UK and Australia, countries that have been on similar policy trajectories with respect to the development of quasi‐markets and increased digitalisation. The article deploys comparative mixed methods comprising surveys of employment service providers and interviews with ...
Jo Ingold, Chris Forde, David Robertshaw
wiley   +1 more source

Psychometric properties of a COVID-19 health literacy scale in a sample of German school principals applying Rasch analysis

BMC Public Health
Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, health literacy was found to be an asset to manage health-related information. The HLS-COVID-Q22 has been developed to measure COVID-19 health literacy.
Marlene Meyer, Kevin Dadaczynski, Melanie Messer, Orkan Okan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Estimating Sibling Spillover Effects with Unobserved Confounding Using Gain-Scores [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
A growing area of research in epidemiology is the identification of health-related sibling spillover effects, or the effect of one individual's exposure on their sibling's outcome. The health and health care of family members may be inextricably confounded by unobserved factors, rendering identification of spillover effects within families particularly
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