BACKGROUND Electronic health (eHealth) literacy is a growing area of research parallel to the ongoing development of eHealth interventions. There is, however, little and conflicting information regarding the factors that influence eHealth literacy, notably in chronic disease. We are similarly ill-informed about the relationship between eHealth and health literacy, 2 related yet distinct health-...

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Rapid and accurate health literacy screening tools could assist interventions to improve care in the HIV clinic setting. Prior studies described brief screening questions for identification of persons with low health literacy, but the performance of these questions in HIV clinics is unknown. We examined the accuracy of provider perception and previously described brief screening questions for i...

The interdisciplinary aspect of natural disasters requires their correlation with more than one discipline and orientation for understanding teaching the inevitable nature disasters. This study aimed to design a teacher training program called Interdisciplinary Disaster Education Program (IDEP) reveal its effect on improving teachers' disaster literacy. Furthermore, opinions about were examined...

Information seeking approaches have changed worldwide today with the evolution of the Internet and on-line resources. This has resulted in the evolution of new learning methods and information literacy strategies. A growing number of students in schools everywhere are using the large number of information sources available on the Internet for conducting research and for communication purposes. ...

Abstract This study focuses on realizations and discourse functions of the organizational linkers in the writing of research article abstracts from four disciplines. To this end, 120 research article abstracts from four disciplines namely, Applied Linguistics, Economics, Agriculture, and Applied Physics (30 from each discipline) were selected. All research article abstracts were extracted from ...

Abstract Reading strategies are seen as supportive means to help learners process and comprehend English texts effectively. The present research probed to posit a discipline-specific model of reading strategies for Iranian TEFL postgraduate students. The motive behind developing a local model of reading strategy is twofold: first, a variety of postgraduate students admitted for M.A and Ph.D. pr...

Chhattisgarh state ranks 16 position in terms of population in India but it ranks 27 in terms of literacy rate. This backwardness is due to more tribal areas in this state. Since literacy is the basis for human development which in turn affects country’s economic growth, it becomes important to improve the proportion of literates. Forecasting of literacy rate will help government & policy maker...

BACKGROUND Male suicide prevention strategies include diagnosis and effective management of men's depression. Fundamental to suicide prevention efforts is public awareness, which in turn, is influenced by literacy levels about men's depression and suicide. AIM The aim of this study is to examine sex differences in mental health literacy with respect to men's depression and suicide among a coh...

SDG Target 4.6 requires that by 2030 Member States ‘ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy’ (WEF, 2016, p. 46). The principles, strategies and actions for this target are ‘underpinned by a contemporary understanding of literacy not as a simple dichotomy of “literate” versus “illiterate”, but as a continuum of proficiency l...