Health literacy and numeracy: key factors in cancer risk comprehension.

摘要: In this age of chronic disease and shared decision making, individuals are encouraged to contribute decisions about health care. Health literacy, including numeracy, is requisite meaningful participation has been accepted as a determinant health. The purpose study was describe the influence consisting prose numeracy skill, math anxiety, attained education context information on participant ability comprehend Internet-based colorectal cancer prevention information. Prose, math-anxiety data, well demographic details, were collected for 140 Canadian adults, aged 50 + years. Participants had adequate literacy (STOFHLA) scores, high STOFHLA moderate levels health-context poorer general-context anxiety. There better comprehension by participants common (9.14/11) compared with uncommon (7.64/11) (p < 0.01). Prose anxiety accounted 60% variation in scores. Numeracy, ranging from basic advanced proficiency, required understand online risk enhances when subject matter less familiar. These findings highlight importance presenting Web-based that accommodates diverse levels.