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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 +2 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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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 +5 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 +4 more
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Examining the Relationship between Health Literacy, Health Numeracy, and Patient Portal Use. [PDF]
Appl Clin Inform, 2022 Abstract Objectives The objective of this study is to investigate the relationships between health literacy and numeracy (HLN) and patient portal use, measured in inpatient and outpatient settings. Methods Using data collected as part of a pragmatic randomized controlled trial conducted across the inpatient population of a U.S ...
Di Tosto G +8 more
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Probability Numeracy and Health Insurance Purchase [PDF]
De Economist, 2015 This paper provides new field evidence on the role of probability numeracy in health insurance purchase. Our regression results, based on rich survey panel data, indicate that the expenditure on two out of three measures of health insurance first rises with probability numeracy and then falls again.
Dillingh, Rik +2 more
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Enhanced numeracy skills following team-based learning in United States pharmacy students: a longitudinal cohort study [PDF]
Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions, 2022 Purpose The literature suggests that the ability to numerate cannot be fully understood without accounting for the social context in which mathematical activity is represented.
Rob Edwin Carpenter +3 more
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Rethinking Health Numeracy: A Multidisciplinary Literature Review [PDF]
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2007 The purpose of this review is to organize various published conceptions of health numeracy and to discuss how health numeracy contributes to the productive use of quantitative information for health. We define health numeracy as the individual-level skills needed to understand and use quantitative health information, including basic computation skills,
Jessica S, Ancker, David, Kaufman
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Improving numeracy through values affirmation enhances decision and STEM outcomes. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Greater numeracy has been correlated with better health and financial outcomes in past studies, but causal effects in adults are unknown. In a 9-week longitudinal study, undergraduate students, all taking a psychology statistics course, were randomly ...
Ellen Peters +8 more
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Should Health Numeracy Be Assessed Objectively or Subjectively? [PDF]
Med Decis Making, 2016 Introduction. Because current evidence suggests that numeracy affects how people make decisions, it is an important factor to account for in studies assessing the effectiveness of medical decision support interventions. Subjective and objective numeracy assessment methods are available that vary in theoretical background, skills assessed, known ...
Dolan JG +4 more
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