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Understanding Health Risk Comprehension: The Role of Math Anxiety, Subjective Numeracy, and Objective Numeracy [PDF]

Medical Decision Making, 2020
Background. Numeracy skills are important for medical decision making as lower numeracy is associated with misinterpreting statistical health risks. Math anxiety, characterized by negative emotions about numerical tasks, and lower subjective numeracy (i.e., self-assessments of numerical competence) are also associated with poor risk comprehension ...
Jonathan J. Rolison, Kinga Morsanyi, Ellen Peters   +2 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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Is Patients’ Numeracy Related to Physical and Mental Health?

Medical Decision Making, 2015
Objective. There is compelling evidence showing that health literacy influences health outcomes. However, there is a dearth of research investigating this issue in the vast literature on numeracy—the ability to accurately interpret numerical information about risk, a skill that is only moderately correlated with
García-Retamero, R. ; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9140-8519, Andrade, A., Sharit, J., Ruiz, J.   +3 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 ...
Chandra Y, Osborn, Kenneth A, Wallston, Adam, Shpigel, Kerri, Cavanaugh, Sunil, Kripalani, Russell L, Rothman   +5 more
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Medication Competence, Numeracy, and Health Literacy

Health Literacy Research and Practice, 2019
Two studies investigated the association between medication literacy and numeracy. Study 1 revealed an association between both variables in a sample of adults.
Kevin M. Gutierrez, Lawrence D. Cohn
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Consequences of genomic literacy elements on genetic testing decisions among Emirati adults: a cross-sectional study [PDF]

BMC Medical Education
Background Genomic literacy is an essential determinant of informed participation in genetic testing. Guided by Nutbeam’s Health Literacy Model, this study examined how components of genomic literacy (genetic/genomic knowledge, health numeracy, and ...
Rabab Gad Abd El-Kader, Ramya Shine Aneesh, Basma Maher Ragheb, Tesa Ann Sheryl, Sethulekshmi Gopakumar, Aleena Maria Steephan, Norhan Elsayed Mohamed, Rahul Binu, Leah Leslie Dias   +8 more
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Validating Health Literacy and Numeracy Measures in Minority Groups

Health Literacy Research and Practice, 2017
Background: Validation studies of existing health literacy or numeracy tools among racial/ethnic minorities are limited. Objective: This study assessed the validity of the Subjective Numeracy Scale (SNS), the Diabetes Numeracy Test (DNT-5), the Brief ...
Rosette J. Chakkalakal, Sneha Venkatraman, Richard O. White, Sunil Kripalani, Russell Rothman, Kenneth Wallston   +5 more
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Examining the Factor Structure of Objective Health Literacy and Numeracy Scales: Large-Scale Cross-Sectional Study [PDF]

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
BackgroundScales for measuring health literacy and numeracy have been broadly classified into performance-based (objective) and self-reported (subjective) scales.
Chihiro Moriishi, Keisuke Takano, Takeyuki Oba, Naoki Konishi, Kentaro Katahira, Kenta Kimura   +5 more
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Understanding of Numerical Information during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Brain Sciences, 2021
Media news during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic often entail complex numerical concepts such as exponential increase or reproduction number. This study investigated whether people have difficulties in understanding such information and
Laura Zamarian, Katharina M. -A. Fürstenberg, Nadia Gamboz, Margarete Delazer   +3 more
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The relationship between low perceived numeracy and cancer knowledge, beliefs, and affect. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
Low numeracy may skew patient perceptions of information about cancer. This paper examines the relationship between self-reported measures of perceived numeracy and cancer knowledge, beliefs, and affect, using results from 3,052 respondents to the 2007 ...
Katherine Ross, Justin Stoler, Nick Carcioppolo   +2 more
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