Health Numeracy Confidence among Racial/ Ethnica Minorities in HINTS 2007: Sociodemographic, Attitudinal, and Knowledge Correlates [PDF]
, 2012 Health numeracy skills help people interpret health risks, and make effective medical decisions. Lower health numeracy confidence was observed for blacks and Hispanic groups than whites.
Chan, Yiu Ming, Feng, Dong, Huang, Hong
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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.
Blackstone, Kaitlin +6 more
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Clinician Numeracy: The Development of an Assessment Measure for Doctors
Numeracy, 2016 Low numeracy in doctors poses serious risks to patient safety because inaccurate drug dose calculation may lead to under-treatment or overdose, while erroneous data interpretation affects medical decision making.
Anne A. Taylor, Lucie M. Byrne-Davis
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Perspective: The Role of Numeracy in Health Care [PDF]
Journal of Health Communication, 2008 Numeracy, the “ability to understand and use numbers in daily life” is an important but understudied component of literacy. Numeracy-related tasks are common in healthcare and include understanding nutrition information, interpreting blood sugar readings and other clinical data, adjusting medications, and understanding probability in risk communication.
Russell L, Rothman +3 more
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Auditing the Numeracy Demands of the Middle Years Curriculum [PDF]
, 2012 The National Numeracy Review Report recognized that numeracy development requires an across the curriculum commitment. To explore the nature of this commitment we conducted a numeracy audit of the South Australian Middle Years curriculum, using a ...
Dole, Shelley +2 more
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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 +2 more
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Effects of Quantitative Literacy on Healthcare Decision-Making: An Aural Context
Numeracy, 2020 We propose a relationship between sensory modality, numerical formatting, and performance on a survey simulating healthcare decision-making. We examine the current literature on aural health literacy, and specifically aural literacy coupled with health ...
Robert Root, Sonia Bhala
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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 +6 more
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Cognitive abilities and portfolio choice [PDF]
, 2008 We study the relation between cognitive abilities and stockholding using the recent Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), which has detailed data on wealth and portfolio composition of individuals aged 50+ in 11 European countries ...
Christelis, Dimitris +2 more
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Health Literacy Research and Practice, 2018 Many people with type 2 diabetes (T2D) do not take medications as prescribed, resulting in suboptimal glycemic control and a greater risk of diabetes complications.
Arathi S. Nandyala +3 more
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