Background In women's health, literacy determines their participation in self and family health promotion. Low health literacy is as barrier for understanding medical recommendations, disease prevention and health care. Aim To assess women's health literacy and relative factors in Mashhad (Iran). Methods Women referring to healthcare centers in Mashhad in 2012 and 2013, participated in this...

OBJECTIVE To explore the association between health literacy and the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), and to assess the differential effects by health literacy level of a nurse-coordinated secondary prevention program (NCPP) in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). METHODS Data were collected in two medical centres participating in the RESPONSE trial (Randomised Evaluation of Seco...

BACKGROUND More than 30% of patients hospitalized for heart failure are rehospitalized or die within 90 days of discharge. Lower health literacy is associated with mortality among outpatients with chronic heart failure; little is known about this relationship after hospitalization for acute heart failure. METHODS AND RESULTS Patients hospitalized for acute heart failure and discharged home be...

A long and yet unfinished history of investigating how individual capabilities and social processes explain or predict health indicates that poor education, low literacy, poor health and early death are strongly linked around the world. However, the complexity of those relationships is not fully understood. In this article, we propose an expanded model of health literacy characterized by four d...

the aim of this paper is examining and criticizing a new concept in moral education named moral literacy. recent years, moral literacy approach attempts to redefine morality in the framework of literacy and via that, return moral education to the school. logical-conceptual analysis of “moral literacy” indicated us some constructive elements of this combination like competency, knowledge, acquis...

illiteracy in studies on quality of life (qol) and self-efficacy (se) of diabetic patients has been ignored. illiteracy and diabetes have high rates in developing countries. the aim of this study was to identify the effect of literacy level on health outcomes. to achieve this, we studied health outcomes such as se, self-management behaviors and health-related quality of life (hrqol) in diabetic...

This paper presents a user study based log analysis of the search behavior of low-literacy users in the developing world. It is first step towards Web search personalization for such users, which has been hindered by a paucity of appropriate data for inducing effective user models that target the real problems in information access for low literacy user population. We demonstrate the variations...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Individuals with low literacy and symptoms of depression have greater improvement of depression symptoms when their treatment includes education to enhance literacy skills. The reason why literacy enhancement helps depression symptoms is unknown, but we hypothesize that it might be due to improved self-efficacy. We studied whether providing literacy education to indivi...

UNLABELLED Low health literacy and alexithymia have separately been emphasized as barriers to patient-practitioner communication, but the association between the two concepts has not been explored. OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that low oral health literacy and alexithymia are associated. METHOD Adults (n=127) aged 21-80 years (56% women) participated in this cross-sectional study. Oral ...