نتایج جستجو برای: newest vital sign

تعداد نتایج: 162296  

2012
Catherine Hudon Martin Fortin Marie-Eve Poitras José Almirall

BACKGROUND Multimorbidity is now acknowledged as a research priority in primary care. The identification of risk factors and people most at risk is an important step in guiding prevention and intervention strategies. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between literacy and multimorbidity while controlling for potential confounders. METHODS Participants were adult patients at...

2015
Rashmi Singh Laura Scott Coyne Lorraine S. Wallace

BACKGROUND Limited health literacy (HL) and numeracy have been shown to be associated with a wide array of poor health-related outcomes, knowledge, and behaviors. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical utility of brief HL and numeracy screening items in identifying Spanish-speaking adults' HL and numeracy skills. METHODS We studied convenience samples of native Spanish-speakin...

Journal: :Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association 2014
René Mõttus Wendy Johnson Catherine Murray Michael S Wolf John M Starr Ian J Deary

OBJECTIVE Low health literacy predicts poor health, but the underpinnings of the associations are yet to be understood. This study tested the associations between health literacy and three objective health outcomes in older people and investigated the extent to which general (not health-related) cognition and earlier life-course factors such as childhood cognitive ability, educational level and...

Journal: :Family medicine 2013
William F Miser Kelly M Jeppesen Lorraine S Wallace

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Our objectives were to (1) compare Newest Vital Sign (NVS) scores and administration characteristics with the short (S) version of the Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (S-TOFHLA) and Spoken Knowledge in Low-Literacy Diabetes (SKILLD) tool and (2) gather information from research assistants (RAs) regarding their perceptions of patient understanding of NVS it...

2017
Gülay Yilmazel Fevziye Çetinkaya

Objective Health literacy plays a critical role in chronic disease self-management. This study aimed to determine the relation between health literacy levels, hypertension awareness and control among primary-secondary school teachers in Turkey. Materials and Methods This descriptive and cross-sectional research was conducted among school teachers with the participation of 500 volunteer teache...

2010
Timothy G Buchman

Clinicians depend on recognizing particular critical illnesses (such as sepsis and cardiac failure) from patterns of vital signs. The relationship between a vital sign pattern and a specific condition is explored.

2017
Joanne Protheroe Rebecca Whittle Bernadette Bartlam Emee Vida Estacio Linda Clark Judith Kurth

BACKGROUND Lower health literacy is a public health issue that follows a social gradient, potentially reinforcing existing health inequalities. However, levels of health literacy in particular populations can be unclear and are a key to identifying effective public health interventions. This research examined health literacy levels in Stoke-on-Trent, where 31.2% of the population live in areas ...

2017
Sean A. P. Clouston Jennifer A. Manganello Marcus Richards

Objective social inequalities in health are believed to arise in part because individuals make use of social and economic resources in order to improve survival. In recent years, health literacy has received increased attention as a factor that can help explain differences in health outcomes. However, examination of life course predictors of health literacy has been limited. Methods life cour...

2017
Samira Olyani Nooshin Peyman

Aim: One of the most significant outcomes of health education is health literacy (HL) so that it must be widely applied for achieving health promotion. The aim of this study was assessing HL and its relationship with using cell phone in adolescents in Mashhad City. Methods: In this analytic-descriptive research, 445 high school adolescents selected with cluster sampling were assessed. For asses...

2015
Catherine L. Hill Sarah L. Appleton Julie Black Elizabeth Hoon Rima E. Rudd Robert J. Adams Tiffany Gill

Self-report of musculoskeletal conditions is often used to estimate population prevalence and to determine disease burden and influence policy. However, self-report of certain musculoskeletal conditions is frequently inaccurate, suggesting inadequate communication to the patient of their diagnosis. The aim of this study is to determine the association between functional health literacy (FHL) an...

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