Browsing by Subject "Health literacy"
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Assessing the Health Literacy of Parents in a Rural County in Eastern North Carolina
(2014-12)Medication administration for children is an important role for parents and requires a basic understanding of medication use by parents. The purpose of this senior honors project was to examine the health literacy of a ... -
Factors Affecting Patient Portal Use Among Low-Income Pregnant Women: Mixed-Methods Pilot Study
(2018-03)Background: Patient portals offer patients personalized and secure Web access to their medical information and enable patients to manage their health care online. However, there is a lack of information about patient ... -
Health Literacy Perception and Experience among Members of the Pediatric Nephrology Interprofessional Team
(2015-06-17)A project utilizing a twenty-six question web based electronic survey was conducted to examine a convenience sample of pediatric nephrology interprofessional team member characteristics, health literacy perception and ... -
Implementing the Suitability Assessment of Materials (SAM) to Improve Health Literacy at a Rural Community Health Center
(2014)Health literacy, as defined by the Institute of Medicine, is "the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic information and services needed to make appropriate decisions regarding ... -
Improving Medication Adherence In Patients With Multiple Chronic Conditions : Evaluation Of A Pilot Intervention In A Rural Primary Care Clinic
(East Carolina University, 2015)Background: More than 25% of primary care patients are managing multiple chronic conditions (MCC) and 50% of their medications are not taken as prescribed. Self-efficacy is the foundation of many successful medication ... -
The Relationship between Health Literacy, Preventive Health Literacy, and Cigarette Smoking Behavior of Undergraduates
(East Carolina University, 2017-09-25)Cigarette smoking is among the most detrimental of risky health behaviors and is related to multiple poor health outcomes including development of cancer. It is a complex behavior that is initiated and maintained through ...