Literacy as a term has become a dynamic concept and societal changes, especially advancements in the technological world have necessitated a continuous review of what the meaning of literacy should be. Computer literacy and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) literacy are revolutionalizing the concept of literacy as the knowledge of the computer and ICT is beginning to feature promin...

conclusions those with inadequate health literacy had lower kidney knowledge and lower adherence compared to those with adequate health literacy. after controlling for education, health literacy was significantly associated with kidney knowledge and adherence. patients with higher health literacy had higher kidney knowledge and adherence behaviors. in addition, knowledge was a mediator of healt...

BACKGROUND The ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and convey information in various forms of media including print and nonprint requires media literacy, but the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic information and services needed for appropriate decisions regarding health, considered an important element in a woman's ability to participate in health promotion and prevention acti...

BACKGROUND Low health literacy has a detrimental effect on health outcomes, as well as ability to use online health resources. Good health literacy assessment tools must be brief to be adopted in practice; test development from the perspective of item-response theory requires pretesting on large participant populations. Our objective was to develop a novel classification method for developing b...

BACKGROUND Refugees have poorer health compared to indigenous populations, which may be explained by lower health literacy, i.e. not being able to access, understand, appraise or apply health information. This study aims to determine levels of functional and comprehensive health literacy, and factors associated with inadequate health literacy, in refugees coming to Sweden. METHOD A cross-sect...

The 21 century has marked an unprecedented advancement of new media. New media has become so pervasive that it has penetrated into every aspect of our society. New media literacy plays an essential role for any citizen to participate fully in the 21 century society. Researchers have documented that literacy has evolved historically from classic literacy (reading-writingunderstanding) to audiovi...

the present study investigated any probable relationship between theidentity processing styles and l2 literacy of advanced persian efl learners. theparticipants included 160 (female = 109, male = 51) advanced efl iranian learners.the instruments used included a simulation of the toefl ibt test, measuring theparticipants’ l2 literacy-related proficiency, reading, and writing, and the identitysty...

Author Details (please list these in the order they should appear in the published article) Please check this box if you do not wish your email address to be published Structured Abstract: Purpose: Digital technologies have transformed what it means to be literate and to experience literacy. Various literacies have been coined to capture this transformation including established literacies like...