Sarah Soyeon Oh, Kyoung‐A Kim, Minsu Kim, Jaeuk Oh et al.
BACKGROUND: Numerous instruments are designed to measure digital literacy among the general population. However, few studies have assessed the use and appropriateness of these measurements for older populations. OBJECTIVE: This systematic review aims to identify and critically appraise studies asses...
Mengyun Zheng, Hui Jin, Naiyang Shi, Chunxiao Duan et al.
BACKGROUND: Low health literacy often has an association with poor health outcomes such as low levels of self-efficacy, increased mortality, poor health status and reduced quality of life (QOL). The aim of the study was to quantitatively evaluate the relationship between health literacy (HL) and QOL...
Kaniz Fatema, Sharmin Hossain, Khurshid Natasha, Hasina Akhter Chowdhury et al.
BACKGROUND: Increased awareness amongst large population groups is a major determinant for the prevention of diabetes and its complications as well as related metabolic disorders. Knowledge and attitude are the principal markers of awareness that need to be studied in various population groups in sp...
Kristin Hjorthaug Urstad, Marit Helen Andersen, Marie Hamilton Larsen, Christine Råheim Borge et al.
OBJECTIVES: The way health literacy is understood (conceptualised) should be closely linked to how it is measured (operationalised). This study aimed to gain insights into how health literacy is defined and measured in current health literacy research and to examine the relationship between health l...
Alan David McCrorie, Conan Donnelly, Kieran McGlade
Infographics are an innovative and engaging method of visually communicating information in a colourful and concise manner. There has been substantial interest in their use within the commercial and health sectors. Healthcare professionals already use infographics to communicate medical informati...
Susmita Das, Mohammad Nahid Mia, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi, Shahidul Hoque et al.
BACKGROUND: Health literacy (HL) helps individuals to make effective use of available health services. In low-income countries such as Bangladesh, the less than optimum use of services could be due to low levels of HL. Bangladesh's health service delivery is pluralistic with a mix of public, private...
Sabuj Kanti Mistry, Miranda Shaw, Freya Raffan, George E. Johnson et al.
The objectives of this review were to map and summarize the existing evidence from a global perspective about inequity in access and delivery of virtual care interventions and to identify strategies that may be adopted by virtual care services to address these inequities. We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE...
Kh. Shafiur Rahaman, Reza Majdzadeh, Kourosh Holakouie Naieni, Owais Raza
BACKGROUND: To reduce morbidity and mortality, awareness regarding diabetes and its complications is necessary. This study aimed at assessing the level of knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP) regarding complications of diabetes mellitus among patients with type 2 diabetes in Dhaka, Bangladesh. M...
Tahir Mutlu Duymuş, Hilmi Karadeniz, Mehmet Akif Çaçan, Baran Kömür et al.
AIM: To evaluate social media usage of orthopaedic patients to search for solutions to their health problems. METHODS: The study data were collected using face-to-face questionnaire with randomly selected 1890 patients aged over 18 years who had been admitted to the orthopaedic clinics in different ...
Yukun Bao, Md. Rakibul Hoque, Shiyu Wang
Background The increasing number of older people and the dissemination of health information via the Internet have emerged and both are challenging to Chinese society. Available online health information highlights the importance of decision making processes, specially in relation to the elderly who...
Roy Rillera Marzo, Tin Tin Su, Roshidi Ismail, Mila Nu Nu Htay et al.
Introduction: It is clear that medical science has advanced much in the past few decades with the development of vaccines and this is even true for the novel coronavirus outbreak. By late 2020, COVID-19 vaccines were starting to be approved by national and global regulators, and across 2021, there w...
Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Andreas Lechner, Uta Ferrari, Jochen Seißler et al.
BACKGROUND: Mobile phone SMS is increasingly used as a means of communication between patients and their healthcare providers in many countries of the world. We investigated mobile phone use and factors associated with willingness-to-pay (WTP) for diabetes SMS among patients with type 2 diabetes in ...
Sambit Dash, Ateeb Ahmad Parray, Loren De Freitas, Md Imran Hossain Mithu et al.
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Shirin Jahan Mumu, Farzana Saleh, Ferdous Ara, Md Rabiul Haque et al.
BACKGROUND: Awareness regarding risk factors is a prerequisite for the prevention of diabetes in general population. However, there are great variations in the level of this awareness from population to population and this needs to be explored in different ethnic and social groups for designing appr...
Nafisa Lira Huq, Asrafi Jahan Azmi, MA Quaiyum, Shahed Hossain
BACKGROUND: Toll free mobile telephone intervention to support mothers in pregnancy and delivery period was tested in one sub district of Bangladesh. Qualitative research was conducted to measure the changes of mobile phone use in increasing communication for maternal and neonatal complications. MET...