BACKGROUND Patient nonadherence to cardiac medications following acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is associated with increased risk of recurrent events. However, the prevalence of cognitive dysfunction and poor health literacy among ACS patients and their association with medication nonadherence are poorly understood. METHODS We assessed rates of cognitive dysfunction and poor health literacy am...

BACKGROUND GPs are an accessible health care provider for most patients with mental disorders and are gatekeepers to specialist care. The extent to which patients consider their primary care team as relevant to their mental health problems needs to be explored. OBJECTIVES To explore reasons why patients choose not to disclose psychological problems to GPs, and to discuss the implications for ...

Background: Although literacy is increasingly considered to play a role in socioeconomic inequalities in health, its contribution to the explanation of educational differences in health has remained unexplored. The aim of this study was to investigate the contribution of self-rated literacy to educational differences in health. Methods: Data was collected from the Healthy Foundation and Lifesty...

aim: identification of contributory factors in smoking and gaining insight into the roles played by each of these factors including health literacy (hl) may account for quitting or decreasing the prevalence of smoking. the aim of the current study was to identify the effects caused by different hl levels on smoking.methods: 347 students inhabiting the dormitories of shahid beheshti university o...

BACKGROUND Although literacy is increasingly considered to play a role in socioeconomic inequalities in health, its contribution to the explanation of educational differences in health has remained unexplored. The aim of this study was to investigate the contribution of self-rated literacy to educational differences in health. METHODS Data was collected from the Healthy Foundation and Lifesty...

background: poor literacy can impede one’s ability not only to seek out needed health information but also to process, understand and use it to make appropriate health care decisions. the objective of the study was to assess the health literacy among adult patients seeking oral health care at in a private dental hospital in bangalore, karnataka, india. materials and methods: a cross sectional q...

introduction: linguistically adapted oral health literacy tools are helpful to assess oral health literacy among local population with clarity and understandability. the original oral health literacy adult questionnaire, oral health literacy adult questionnaire, was given in english (2013), consisting of 17 items under 4 domains. the present study rationalizes to culturally adapt and validate o...

Abstract To explore the multiple linear regression model, author puts forward research on influencing factors of college students’ mental health literacy. The selected Mental Health Guidance Center A University to investigate status 5806 students in 2010, according questionnaire data, affecting were verified. influence various is clarified by establishing a statistical data and calculation resu...