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The role of pictures in improving health communication: A review of research on attention, comprehension, recall, and adherence
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Pictures closely linked to written or spoken text can, when compared to text alone, markedly increase attention to and recall of health education information and improve comprehension when they show relationships among ideas or when they shows spatial relationships.About:
This article is published in Patient Education and Counseling.The article was published on 2006-05-01. It has received 1307 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Health communication.read more
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Health literacy interventions and outcomes: an updated systematic review.
Nancy D. Berkman,Stacey L. Sheridan,Katrina E Donahue,David J Halpern,Anthony J. Viera,Karen Crotty,Audrey Holland,Michelle Brasure,Kathleen N. Lohr,Elizabeth Harden,Elizabeth Tant,Ina Wallace,Meera Viswanathan +12 more
TL;DR: Differences in health literacy level were consistently associated with increased hospitalizations, greater emergency care use, lower use of mammography, lower receipt of influenza vaccine, poorer ability to demonstrate taking medications appropriately, poorer able to interpret labels and health messages, and, among seniors, poorer overall health status and higher mortality.
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Promoting effective transitions of care at hospital discharge: A review of key issues for hospitalists
TL;DR: Key challenges to providing high-quality care as patients leave the hospital are reviewed, including the discontinuity between hospitalists and primary care physicians, changes to the medication regimen, new self-care responsibilities that may stress available resources, and complex discharge instructions.
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Use of pictorial aids in medication instructions: a review of the literature.
TL;DR: The use of pictorial aids enhances patients' understanding of how they should take their medications, particularly when pictures are used in combination with written or oral instructions.
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Video decision support tool for advance care planning in dementia: randomised controlled trial
Angelo E. Volandes,Michael K. Paasche-Orlow,Michael J. Barry,Muriel R. Gillick,Kenneth L. Minaker,Yuchiao Chang,E. Francis Cook,Elmer D. Abbo,Areej El-Jawahri,Susan L. Mitchell +9 more
TL;DR: Older people who view a video depiction of a patient with advanced dementia after hearing a verbal description of the condition are more likely to opt for comfort as their goal of care compared with those who solely listen to a verbal descriptions.
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Effective Teaching Strategies and Methods of Delivery for Patient Education: A Systematic Review and Practice Guideline Recommendations
Audrey Jusko Friedman,Audrey Jusko Friedman,Roxanne Cosby,Susan Boyko,Jane Hatton-Bauer,Gale Turnbull +5 more
TL;DR: Structured-, culturally appropriate- and patient-specific teachings were found to be better than ad hoc teaching or generalized teaching and provide guidance for establishing provincial standards for the delivery of PE.
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Teaching Patients With Low Literacy Skills
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide teaching strategies to aid in making self-help and self-management a reality for the patient with low literacy skills by using audiotapes and visual aids.
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Health Literacy Among Medicare Enrollees in a Managed Care Organization
Julie A. Gazmararian,David W. Baker,Mark V. Williams,Ruth M. Parker,Tracy Scott,Diane C. Green,S N Fehrenbach,J Ren,Jeffrey P. Koplan +8 more
TL;DR: Elderly managed care enrollees may not have the literacy skills necessary to function adequately in the health care environment, and low health literacy may impair elderly patients' understanding of health messages and limit their ability to care for their medical problems.
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Effects of text illustrations: A review of research
W. Howard Levie,Richard Lentz +1 more
TL;DR: Research in closely related fields (involving, for example, nonrepresentational pictures, graphic organizers, learner-produced drawings) is looked at, offering guidelines for practice.
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Pictorial Illustrations Still Improve Students' Learning From Text
Russell N. Carney,Joel R. Levin +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the "whys, why, how, and how muchs" of picture facilitation in text illustration and provided several "tenets for teachers" in relation to each type.
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Satisfaction, compliance and communication
TL;DR: It is concluded that dissatisfaction with communication remains widespread, as does lack of compliance with medical advice, and theoretical approaches to communication and compliance should be used to direct future research.