The article reviews the benefits and impact of Health Literacy on Patient Safety. Health literacy could be understood as patient's ability to read and understand and act on heath information. Poor health literacy can result in misunderstanding and miscommunication between patient and his or her ...
Health literacy was also measured using the Newest Vital Sign (NVS) and eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS) tools.Method:Regression models determined engagement in health care IT usage and impact of literacy levels based on survey data collected from the group.Results:Although most participants have ...
Low HL is a major problem with a growing number of studies linking it to poor health outcomes including higher hospitalization rates and emergency department utilization and poorer disease outcomes for conditions such as HIV, diabetes, depression, and cardiovascular disease.[5,6,7,8,9]Low HL is ...
One study that looked at how well people understood their health found the Dunning-Kruger effect: Those with the lowest "health literacy" rated themselves as knowledgeable. That can lead to people choosing unhealthy or risky behaviors while believing they are taking good care of themselves. Several...
Furthermore, social media can disrupt teenagers' sleep patterns and physical health. Many teenagers spend excessive hours scrolling through their social media feeds, often late into the night. This constant exposure to screens can interfere with their quality of sleep, leading to fatigue, poor concen...
The utility of PIL, in terms of reading and understanding, represents one of the causes of medication errors and poor adherence [14, 15]. A study of the effect of PIL on patient behavior in Israel showed that the rate of reading the PIL was about 50% and that reading PIL aroused anxiet...
Existential Well-being, Mental Health, and COVID-19: Reconsidering the Impact of the Lockdown Stressors. Established in 2008, the Russian Psychological Society's Journal «Psychology in Russia: State of the Art» publishes original articles.
Poverty greatly increases the risk of contracting infectious diseases, with clinical outcomes further aggravated by lacking access to healthcare. Poor waste and sanitation, non-potable drinking water, housing overcrowding [4] and inadequate nutrition [5] are all linked to risk of and recovery from ...
In Theme I, nurses and nursing directors described the SR health profile as poor at baseline, and as the crisis was protracting the type of diseases shifted from acute to chronic with convoluted complications. As for determinants of health, SR s had poor health literacy and poor living ...
III. Service impacts: health and intersectoral and IV. Societal impacts. Within each of these areas, further descriptive categories were identified. For example, the nature of research impact on policy can be described using the following categorisation, put forward by Weiss: ...