background: worldwide, about 350 million people are infected with hepatitis b virus (hbv), most of them in asia. up to 1 million of them die due to these sequels annually. few studies concerned about hbv awareness of iranians young people. as health education programs should be based on awareness of target group about the disease, we conducted a national survey to evaluate health literacy and v...

OBJECTIVE Diabetic patients with lower literacy or numeracy skills are at greater risk for poor diabetes outcomes. This study evaluated the impact of providing literacy- and numeracy-sensitive diabetes care within an enhanced diabetes care program on A1C and other diabetes outcomes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS In two randomized controlled trials, we enrolled 198 adult diabetic patients with m...

Research demonstrates that literacy and academic achievement are predicated on the emergent literacy knowledge and skills children acquire from birth up to 4 years of age. Parents are children's first and most important language and literacy teachers, yet not all parents have the capacity to establish an adequate early literacy foundation. Efforts to address this situation have resulted in nume...

The healthcare sector is a dynamic and expanding area that is replete with numerous new developments, resulting in explosion of literature and information overload. An adequate level of information literacy is required to benefit from the growing healthcare literature. Concurrently, there also has been an emphasis on Evidence-Based Practice (EBP), as a thoughtful integration of the best availab...

the support of the Indiana General Assembly. The grant provided annual funding for schools to implement Reading Recovery, a highly regarded early literacy program, or other literacy interventions. From its inception, approximately $31.4 million has been distributed through the grant program. Since 1997, the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy (CEEP, formerly the Indi-ana Education Policy...

PURPOSE This study investigated the relationship between home literacy experiences and bilingual preschoolers' early literacy outcomes. METHOD Forty-three Puerto Rican mother-child dyads recruited from Head Start programs in central Pennsylvania participated in this study of home literacy experiences and emerging English literacy abilities. The dyads were grouped according to whether the chil...

Given the importance of focus on globalized curriculum, this study presents a review of the literature on issues related to the nature of learning contents and curriculum, especially the development of curriculum based on the research process inquirybased learning in terms of information literacy. Some hypotheses were formulated to explain the lack of studies on this topic, such as the level of...

Aims: Sexual health literacy is a context-based variable affected by the ecosystem or a set of cultural and social factors of each community. This study aimed to determine sexual health literacy and the related factors. Instrument & Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. The population of this study was 305 women referring to the health centers of Qazvin, Iran. Sampling was done through a ...