Screening attendance of breast or cervical cancers and its associated factors among 30-49 year old women in Gedeo zone, South Ethiopia: Cross-sectional study. by Abel Desalegn Demeke, Bedilu Deribe, Martha Girma, Muluken Gizaw, Sefonias Getachew, Susanne Unverzagt, Eva J Kantelhardt, Betty Ferrell, Eric Sven Kroeber, Lesley Taylor

“…Screening uptake was better in women with higher education, health literacy, self-efficacy, and older age-similar to factors associated with other health seeking behavior. …”
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Technology Readiness Level and Self-Reported Health in Recipients of an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator: Cross-Sectional Study by Natasha Rosenmeier, David Busk, Camilla Dichman, Kim Mechta Nielsen, Lars Kayser, Mette Kirstine Wagner

“…ResultsFour technology readiness profiles were found: (1) profile 1 (low digital health literacy, insufficient on 5 dimensions), (2) profile 2 (sufficient on all dimensions), (3) profile 3 (consistently sufficient readiness on all dimensions), and (4) profile 4 (insufficient readiness on 9 dimensions). …”
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How have interventions targeting pregnant women from refugee, migrant and culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds living in high-income countries been developed or tailor... by Sweekriti Sharma, Gayathri Jegadeesh, Camille Raynes-Greenow, Adrienne Gordon, Gayani Gunawardhana, Danielle Marie Muscat

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Latent profile and determinants of self-management behaviors among older adult patients with chronic diseases: a cross-sectional study by Yu Jiao Shao, Xiao Cui Duan, Xue Jun Xu, Hong Yan Guo, Ze Yu Zhang, Shuang Zhao, Fu Zhi Wang, Yong Xia Chen, Qin Chen, Shi Qing Zhang, Xiu Mu Yang

“…Multivariate logistic regression revealed that residence, aCCI, number of digital devices used, perceived usefulness of digital health information, digital health literacy, social support, chronic disease management self-efficacy, and psychological status were significant factors affecting self-management profiles (all p < 0.05).ConclusionSelf-management behaviors in older adult patients with chronic diseases were generally low, with substantial heterogeneity across profiles. …”
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Racial Disparities and Mental Health Effects Within Prostate Cancer by Kaylynn J. Conant, Hanh N. Huynh, Jolene Chan, John Le, Matthew J. Yee, Danyon J. Anderson, Alan D. Kaye, Benjamin C. Miller, Joseph D. Drinkard, Elyse M. Cornett, Alexander Gomelsky, Ivan Urits

“…., socioeconomic status, education level, health literacy) factors that contribute to PCa disparities, nonbiological factors may play a more significant role. …”
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Exploring Health Educational Interventions for Children With Congenital Heart Disease: Scoping Review by Neda Barbazi, Ji Youn Shin, Gurumurthy Hiremath, Carlye Anne Lauff

“…Outcomes included improved children’s health literacy, reduced parental burden, and increased health care provider efficiency. …”
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Perceptions amongst medication users regarding South African patient package inserts (PPIs) of scheduled and over-the-counter (OTC) medications by Daleen Krige, Johann Cornelius de Wet

“…If PPIs, as a health communication tool, can be seen to be valuable and easily comprehensible sources of medication information, they can fulfil a necessary role in health literacy, especially in a multicultural, developing country such as South Africa, one typified by huge class differences and where more than two-thirds of its households fall within the lower- to middle-income groups. …”
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Matching Inhaler Devices with Patients: The Role of the Primary Care Physician by Alan Kaplan, David Price

“…A range of factors, including age, dexterity, inspiratory capacity, cognitive ability, health literacy, and ethnicity, can impact a patient’s ability and intention to use their device. …”
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Findings from the Tushirikiane-4-MH (supporting each other for mental health) mobile health–supported virtual reality randomized controlled trial among urban refugee youth in Kampa... by Carmen H. Logie, Moses Okumu, Zerihun Admassu, Frannie MacKenzie, Lesley Gittings, Jean-Luc Kortenaar, Naimul Khan, Robert Hakiza, Daniel Kibuuka Musoke, Aidah Nakitende, Brenda Katisi, Peter Kyambadde, Richard Lester, Lawrence Mbuagbaw

“…Secondary outcomes included: mental health literacy, mental health stigma, self-compassion, mental well-being and adaptive coping. …”
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An examination of the health information seeking experiences of women in rural Ontario, Canada by C.N. Wathen, R.M. Harris

“…</b> Emerging themes included: the context of rural living, information and health literacy, the role of unanticipated information intermediaries in the search process, and the mis-match between assumptions made by 'the system' about sources of information, and women's lived realities. …”
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The Effectiveness of Digitalization in Family Caregiver Empowerment Model (FCEM) for Reducing Diabetes Incidence in Rural Areas: An App-Based Literature Review Study by Fahmi Wildana, Lutfian Lutfian, Aufa Azizah, Izdihar Javier Wardika, Fariza Barika Ramadhani, Wahyu Dwi Utomo

“…Additionally, it raises health literacy, which boosts psychological support, increases adherence to blood sugar management, and lessens disease-related anxiety. …”
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Key characteristics in designing HIV interventions at a glance by Mona Larki, Elham Manouchehri

“…Characteristics of HIV interventions are divided into seven categories: comprehensive health literacy programs, gender-responsive, holistic content, management of intervention by competent specialists, involvement of people living with HIV, utilization of multiple and innovative techniques, and allocating a specific time frame. …”
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Exploring barriers and facilitators of primary care physicians towards optimising statin therapy in patients with hyperlipidaemia in the very high-risk group: a qualitative study i... by Chun Yen Beh, Rose Wai-Yee Fok, Lay Hoon Goh

“…Objectives To explore the perspectives of primary care physicians with regard to the barriers and facilitators towards optimising statin therapy in patients with hyperlipidaemia in the very high-risk group.Design Qualitative descriptive study.Setting Four polyclinics in a public primary care institution in Singapore.Participants Seven men and five women working as primary care physicians were recruited for in-depth interviews.Results The major barriers to statin optimisation identified were patients’ lack of knowledge and awareness, patients’ fear of side effects, negative external influences on patients, poor doctor–patient relationship, time constraint during consultations, physicians’ unfamiliarity with guidelines, low health literacy among the local population and lack of strong national policy. …”
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Adolescent mental health in sub-Saharan Africa: crisis? What crisis? Solution? What solution? by Claire Hart, Shane A. Norris

“…Investing in these strategies, alongside increasing mental health literacy, could lead to affordable and significant interventions to address adolescent mental health.…”
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Delay in seeking medication for oral cancer and its influencing factors – a review of research progress by Yuanyuan YANG, Jiegang HUANG, Huaming MAI, Qingsi OUYANG

“…It analyzes various factors that may influence patient behavior, including oral cancer awareness and knowledge, psychosocial variables, health literacy, socioeconomic status, and oral examination habits. …”
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A Decision-Making Framework for University Student Sports Study Psychological Healthy Evaluation with 2-Tuple Linguistic Neutrosophic Numbers by Xiaoping Yang, Wensheng Shi

“…The establishment of the evaluation index system of sports health literacy is a complex evaluation system with multiple factors and multiple indicators. …”
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Risk and protective factors associated with adolescent depression in Singapore: a systematic review by Wei Sheng Goh, Jun Hao Norman Tan, Yang Luo, Sok Hui Ng, Mohamed Sufyan Bin Mohamed Sulaiman, John Chee Meng Wong, Victor Weng Keong Loh

“…Further research should focus on current and prospective interventions to improve mental health literacy, targeting sleep duration, internet use and gaming, and mitigating the risk of depression in patients with chronic disease in the primary care and community setting.…”
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IMPLEMENTATION OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN COUNTRIES by Memo Lukito, Ascobat Gani

“…The following priorities for PHC policy implementation emerged: enhancing collaboration between public and private sectors, improving information sharing through technology and health literacy, establishing quality evaluation systems, and promoting community-based training programs. …”
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Beyond conventional healthcare for mental health problems: Experiences of existential group conversations by Inger Jansson, Karin Thörne, Daniel Masterson

“…Within the theme Experiences of healthcare related encounters, referring to the second aim, participants recollected feelings of disconnectedness, difficulties verbalizing MHP and dealing with rigid, standardized measures.Conclusion Existential conversations in group may contribute to a more reflected doing in accordance with one’s own values as well as improved mental health literacy. Design and measures within healthcare need to explicitly address MHP and consider individual’s own preferences.Significance This study contributes to understanding of coping with MHP in everyday life from an existential perspective.…”
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COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Various Segments of the Population in Turkey: A Literature Review by Sezer Okay

“…A negative correlation was found between vaccine hesitancy and health literacy. The relationship between COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and religiosity was also investigated. …”
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