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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"Low Literacy"”.
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Ambiguity resolution of adults with low literacy
… adults who were diverse in age, race, and literacy skill. Participants read 60 passages containing an ambiguous word while their eye movements were recorded. The first sentence was contextually biased toward the subordinate meaning of a homograph in which the sentence-final word was the …
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Exploring the pathways to poor health in the 'hidden population' with low literacy
Low literacy remains a problem across the developed world. Health literacy has emerged as a specialist literacy, although its conceptualisation and measurement overlap with those of functional literacy. The social practice view, which conceptualises literacy as an activity rather than a skill, is …
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Factors that contribute to low literacy achievement among grade seven(7) pupils with hearing impairment in Lusaka District, Zambia
… to establish the factors that contribute to low literacy achievement among grade seven (7) learners with hearing impairment. The study was driven by four (4) objectives. These are: to find out the factors that could be responsible for low achievement in reading among grade seven hearing …
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Measuring acceptability and efficacy of culturally sensitive peer-taught diabetes nutrition education for a low-income, low-literacy, Spanish-speaking Hispanic population
Objective: Examine the efficacy and acceptability of culturally sensitive diabetes education. Methods: Subjects were assigned to Usual Care (UC) or Culturally Sensitive (CS) groups to receive diabetes education. The UC group received education from an English-speaking healthcare professional …
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Literate Behaviors in African American Head Start Families: A Multiple Literacies Perspective
Low literacy and illiteracy have been documented among low-income African American children. The problems associated with low literacy and illiteracy often extend into adulthood, with potentially devastating consequences. Low-income African American caregivers are frequently portrayed as devoid of …
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Iowa Virtual Literacy Protocol: A Pre-Experimental Design Using Kurzweil 3000 Text-To-Speech Software With Incarcerated Adult Learners
… (text-to-speech software) on incarcerated low-literate adult populations. This study will determine the effectiveness of text-to-speech computer software technology with incarcerated adult learners seeking to improve literacy competencies. Procedures: The study employed pretests and …
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Adapting a novel public display system for an educational context
… over the Internet due to high bandwidth costs, low literacy rates and the difficulty of setting up expensive computer labs. For example, at the University of Cape Town, labs are often overcrowded and fewer learners gaining access to information. One innovative solution to this problem has been …
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The Low Literate Consumer in the Pharmacy
… This paper suggests that consumers with limited literacy skills are routinely overlooked within the healthcare arena and may be in need of consumer protection policies. Low literacy is generally perceived to be a stigma, and consumers may actively work to hide this fact. Moreover, given they lack …
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Utilization of household and community resources for enterprise development among women of Lower Umfolozi
… resources for enterprise development at Lower Umfolozi, and to assess the extent to which women that are involved in income-generating projects utilise community resources. It was found that community resources used by projects in the Lower Umfolozi produce a surplus that can generate …
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Designing an architecture for secure sharing of personal health records : a case of developing countries
… to users with different models of security and literacy than those designed for developed world. This study investigated a PHR system distributed across mobile devices with a security model and an interface that supports the usage and concerns of low literacy users in developing countries. The …
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How do New Zealand nurses who work in the area of oncology educate and provide follow-up support to patients who are prescribed oral capecitabine and what are nurses’ perceptions of this process?
… outpatient settings educated and provided follow-up support to patients who were about to commence capecitabine. Participants were also asked what they thought about the service they provided. Semi-structured questions were asked via telephone interviews. Results showed that the RNs gave …
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Experiences and perceptions of participants and staff involved in HIV research in Gugulethu, South Africa
… participated in or worked on HIV research in lowresource settings. Obtaining such information is important because research in low-resource settings presents several ethical challenges that result in the vulnerability of participants due to factors such as low literacy levels, high rates of …
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A Qualitative Study of Barriers to Dental Care Among Older Minority Adults Residing in Lower Income Communities
… barriers to the use of dental care among low-income minority older adults. Participants were recruited from low-income senior housing in Hartford, CT. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted to obtain data on demographics, oral health status, oral health knowledge and factors …
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Low Literate Consumers in a Literate Marketplace: Exploring Consumer Literacy and Its Impact
… of adult consumers possessing traditional literacy skills below an eighth grade reading level enter a marketplace packed with written messages. This research offers the first in-depth, systematic investigation exploring the impact of low literacy skills within the marketplace and the …
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Examining students’ attitudes toward blended learning in adult literacy and basic skills programs
Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) programs offer adult learners, with low literacy and basic skills, opportunities to improve employment skills and pre-requisite courses for entrance into post-secondary education. Barriers to learning that students encounter in LBS programs might be reduced through a …
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Digitally Segregated Understanding Technology Readiness In Preparation For Higher Education Success
… Digital Divide is a multilayered issue impacting low-income persons, low literacy persons, seniors, and persons with disabilities. The new emphasis is on whether people know how to use technological devices and the Internet for multiple purposes, especially to function and progress in daily …
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Fatores de risco e seu reconhecimento: como a ignorância e a adoção de estratégias podem influenciar no desenvolvimento de doenças cardiovasculares
… was the AMI (68.3%), the main RF identified were low literacy (82.9%), HBP (78%), sedentary lifestyle (73.2%) and smoking (65.9%). In addition, 48.8% informed that they do not know what a RF is. CONCLUSIONS: The high prevalence and simultaneity of these RF shows the need and importance of …
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An accessibility-activity based approach for modelling rural travel demand in developing countries
… for problems like high mortality rate and low literacy rate and high sense of isolation. Recent research has recommended that time constraints should be incorporated in attempting to model rural travel behaviour. The research reported in this thesis integrates household accessibility …
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Psychometric Testing of the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model of Behavior Change Questionnaire in Mexican-Americans with Diabetes Type 2
… analyses were used. Results: Participants had a low literacy level which affected their ability to read food labels, count carbohydrates, and understand information taught in diabetic education classes. They tended to have strong family support systems but poor internal motivation. Based on …
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The Healthy Heart Project: A Bilingual Nutrition Intervention Program and Standarized Open-Ended Interviews
… (EFNEP) curricula was assessed and revised for low literacy, cultural sensitivity for Mexicans and Puerto Ricans, and for its emphasis on CVD risk reduction through the Food Guide Pyramid. To assess this revised curricula, culturally appropriate surveys that measured the knowledge of Hispanics, …
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