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Numeracy and COVID-19: examining interrelationships between numeracy, health numeracy and behaviour [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2022
During the COVID-19 pandemic, people across the globe have been exposed to large amounts of statistical data. Previous studies have shown that individuals' mathematical understanding of health-related information affects their attitudes and behaviours ...
Nathan T. T. Lau, Eric D. Wilkey, Mojtaba Soltanlou, Rebekka Lagacé Cusiac, Lien Peters, Paul Tremblay, Celia Goffin, Isabella Starling Alves, Andrew David Ribner, Clarissa Thompson, Jo Van Hoof, Julia Bahnmueller, Aymee Alvarez, Elien Bellon, Ilse Coolen, Fanny Ollivier, Daniel Ansari   +16 more
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An Evaluation of Health Numeracy among Radiation Therapists and Dosimetrists [PDF]

Advances in Radiation Oncology, 2021
Purpose: Medical errors in radiation oncology sometimes involve tasks reliant on practitioners’ grasp of numeracy. Numeracy has been shown to be suboptimal across various health care professionals. Herein, we assess health numeracy among American Society
Gabrielle W. Peters, MD, Jacqueline R. Kelly, MD, MSc, Jason M. Beckta, MD, PhD, Marney White, PhD, Lawrence B. Marks, MD, Eric Ford, PhD, Suzanne B. Evans, MD, MPH   +6 more
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Numeracy and Health Numeracy Among Chinese and Kenyan Immigrants to Canada

SAGE Open, 2014
Mathematics self-efficacy plays an important role in the performance of quantitative tasks. The objective of this study was to examine the role of mathematics self-efficacy in numeracy and health numeracy among immigrants (60 Mandarin-speaking and 60 ...
S. Gatobu, J. F. Arocha, L. Hoffman-Goetz   +2 more
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Development and validation of the General Health Numeracy Test (GHNT) [PDF]

Patient Education and Counseling, 2013
Because existing numeracy measures may not optimally assess 'health numeracy', we developed and validated the General Health Numeracy Test (GHNT).An iterative pilot testing process produced 21 GHNT items that were administered to 205 patients along with validated measures of health literacy, objective numeracy, subjective numeracy, and medication ...
Kenneth Wallston, Kerri Cavanaugh, Sunil Kripalani   +2 more
exaly   +5 more sources

Alignment of Patient Health Numeracy with Asthma Care Instructions in the Patient Portal [PDF]

Health Literacy Research and Practice, 2017
Background: After Visit Summary (AVS) instructions provided through the patient portal of the electronic medical record can support asthma self-management if patients have the skills to interpret and apply the health information provided.
Marilyn M. Schapira, Chantel Mozal, Frances S. Shofer, Rodalyn Gonzalez, Andrea J. Apter   +4 more
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Cross-sectional study of healthcare professionals’ estimates of the health numeracy of inpatients and outpatients in a UK secondary care setting [PDF]

BMJ Public Health
Introduction A cross-sectional study to identify whether healthcare professionals (HCPs) can accurately estimate the health numeracy of patients.Methods A convenient sample of inpatients and outpatients, in an urban UK general hospital, undertook a ...
Sarah Beale, Chad Byworth, Calisha Allen, Rajashree Murki, Akifah Mojadady, Lubnaa Ghoora, Jameela Nagri, Chetan D Parmar   +7 more
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Health numeracy: the importance of domain in assessing numeracy. [PDF]

Med Decis Making, 2014
Background and Objective. Existing research concludes that measures of general numeracy can be used to predict individuals’ ability to assess health risks. We posit that the domain in which questions are posed affects the ability to perform mathematical tasks, raising the possibility of a separate construct of “health numeracy” that is distinct from ...
Levy H, Ubel PA, Dillard AJ, Weir DR, Fagerlin A.   +4 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

Everyday decision-making in later life: the role of cognitive reserve and cognitive functions [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
ObjectivesThis study aimed to investigate decision-making competence of midlife and older adults, and its relationship with cognitive reserve and cognitive functions.MethodsA total of 120 healthy adults (aged 50 to 90 years) completed a decision-making ...
Katharina Thaler, Johanna Büchel, Johanna Büchel, Elisabeth Goettfried, Marie-Theres Pertl, Margarete Delazer, Iris Unterberger, Atbin Djamshidian, Laura Zamarian   +8 more
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Health numeracy in Japan: measures of basic numeracy account for framing bias in a highly numerate population [PDF]

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2012
Background Health numeracy is an important factor in how well people make decisions based on medical risk information. However, in many countries, including Japan, numeracy studies have been limited. Methods To fill this gap, we evaluated health numeracy
Okamoto Masako, Kyutoku Yasushi, Sawada Manabu, Clowney Lester, Watanabe Eiju, Dan Ippeita, Kawamoto Keiko   +6 more
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The association among literacy, numeracy, HIV knowledge and health-seeking behavior: a population-based survey of women in rural Mozambique. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
BACKGROUND: Limited literacy skills are common in the United States (US) and are related to lower HIV knowledge and worse health behaviors and outcomes.
Philip J Ciampa, Lara M E Vaz, Meridith Blevins, Moshin Sidat, Russell L Rothman, Sten H Vermund, Alfredo E Vergara   +6 more
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