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Developing a Better and More User-Friendly Numeracy Scale for Patients
Health Literacy Research and Practice, 2019 Background: A person's ability to work with and understand numerical information (i.e., numeracy) is increasingly important in everyday health and other decision-making contexts.
W. Trey Hill +2 more
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Exploring Decisional Conflict With Measures of Numeracy and Optimism in a Stated Preference Survey
MDM Policy & Practice, 2021 Objectives Low optimism and low numeracy are associated with difficulty or lack of participation in making treatment-related health care decisions. We investigated whether low optimism and low self-reported numeracy scores could help uncover evidence of ...
Jessie Sutphin +4 more
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Numeracy—an underestimated domain of adult basic education?
Zeitschrift für Weiterbildungsforschung - Report, 2019 In this article, terms and the state of research on adult numeracy are compiled in a systematic way. The findings and theories are selected according to their relation to the German-language discourse of adult education and at the same time embedded in a
Anke Grotlüschen +2 more
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Math Predictors of Numeric Health and Non-Health Decision-Making Problems
Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2021 People frequently encounter numeric information in medical and health contexts. In this paper, we investigated the math factors that are associated with decision-making accuracy in health and non-health contexts.
Clarissa A. Thompson +3 more
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Assessing Health Numeracy Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults
Journal of Health Communication, 2007 Quantitative information occupies a central role within health care decision making. Despite this, numeracy has attracted little research attention. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to (1) describe the health numeracy skill of a nonclinical, Canadian community-based senior population and (2) determine the relationship between health numeracy ...
Donelle, Lorie +2 more
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The Second Decade of Numeracy: Entering the Seas of Literacy
Numeracy, 2019 This multipurpose editorial explores and tries to count the many types of literacy that are referred to by name in Wikipedia and Numeracy. Wikipedia’s Category:Literacy page identifies 44 kinds of literacy that are the subject of articles, ranging from ...
H.L. Vacher
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PLoS ONE, 2023 In promoting genomic medicine, genomic literacy, which is the public's ability to acquire and utilize the knowledge and skills related to genetics and genomes, requires urgent improvement.
Tomomi Miyoshi, Masaki Watanabe
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Cognitive skills and the LOGSE reform in Spain: evidence from PIAAC [PDF]
, 2017 We use data from the Spanish sample of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies to analyze the effect of the LOGSE (Spanish acronym for General Law of the Education System) reform passed in 1990 on numeracy and literacy ...
Robles-Zurita, Jose Antonio
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Regional differences in the profile of disabled community-dwelling older adults: a European population-based cross-sectional study [PDF]
, 2018 The main objective of this work was to estimate the prevalence of disability in European community-dwelling older adults, as well as to investigate differences in the profile of disabled older adults between European regions (Northern, Central, Eastern ...
Bagur-Calafat , Caritat +6 more
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Nursing: Research and Reviews, 2013 C Ann Gakumo,1 David E Vance,1,2 Linda D Moneyham,1 Joy P Deupree,1 Carlos A Estrada3,4 1School of Nursing, 2Center for Nursing Research, 3Veterans Affairs National Quality Scholars Program at the Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 4School of ...
Gakumo CA +4 more
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