This report reviews some of the extensive literature in health literacy, much of it focused on the intersection of low literacy and the understanding of basic health care information. Several articles describe methods for assessing health literacy as well as methods for assessing the readability of texts, although generally these latter have not been developed with health materials in mind. Oth...

Nurse practitioners' (NPs) knowledge, experience, and intention to use health literacy strategies in practice were investigated using the Theory of Planned Behavior as the theoretical framework. NPs who work in outpatient settings were recruited at a national NP conference. Participants were administered 3 self-report instruments: Health Literacy Knowledge and Experience Survey, Parts I and II;...

OBJECTIVE To present a summary of the existing literature on medication nonadherence, health literacy, and use of written patient information in health care and pharmacy in particular. DATA SOURCES Searches of Medline, PubMed, and International Pharmaceutical Abstracts databases were conducted using one or more of the following terms: adherence/nonadherence, compliance/noncompliance, printed/...

BACKGROUND Despite the large volume of research dedicated to health-related behavior change, chronic disease costs continue to rise, thus creating a major public health burden. Health literacy, the ability to seek, understand, and utilize health information, has been identified as an important factor in the course of chronic conditions. Little research has been conducted on the relationship bet...

libraries as activators of life long learning Neena Singh1 (in collaboration with Andreas Klingenberg2) The paper highlights the role of academic libraries in promoting and developing information skills of students in modern automated and hybrid libraries and their role in developing a knowledge society. It defines information literacy and major information literacy skills required by students...

Results: A total of 2016 study subjects completed the questionnaire (response rate 93.7%) with the mean age of 34.2 ± 12.8 years. The overall health literacy was 10.2 ± 4.2 and around 51% of the subjects reported marginal health literacy, while only 0.3% of inadequate health literacy was noticed among males aged 55+ years possessing university education. The overall health literacy and its doma...

BACKGROUND There are conflicting reports in the research literature of the literacy outcome of children with speech disorder. The link between phonological awareness and literacy in typically developing and literacy delayed children is well established, but there is less research specifically into children with an isolated speech disorder (i.e. with age-appropriate language skills). There is a ...

Health literacy is considered to be a matrix of cognitive abilities comprised of four competency areas which include accessing, understanding, judging and applying information related to health. Each of these proficiencies is framed within three domains of health that characterize both individual and societal level interactions within the health system. These are healthcare, disease prevention ...

Using data of literacy skills among adults aged 26 to 35 from the International Adult Literacy Survey, we compare the degree of literacy gaps between those who completed tertiary education and those who did not graduate from high schools across 19 countries. The result of ordinary least square regression shows that although those with a higher level of educational attainment tend to have a high...