Parikshit Debnath, Khurshid Natasha, Liaquat Ali, Tapas Bhaduri, Tushar Kanti Roy, Sayantan Bera, Debdeep Mukherjee, Swati Debnath
Ayurpharmacoepidemiology Perspective: Health Literacy (Knowledge and Practice) Among Older Diabetes Patients Visiting Ayurveda Teaching Hospitals in India
Journal of evidence-based complementary & alternative medicine
study explored parents accurate reading concerns implications paediatric practice parents schoolaged children 34 schools ontario canada responded questionnaire childrens academic development 27 response children participated standardized normreferenced tests word reading oral sentence recall task parental concern status retrospectively crossreferenced reading difficulty status 25th percentile word reading tests grade 2 children complete data n 294 diagnostic accuracy evaluated demographic readingrelated characteristics children whose parents concern match reading difficulty status explored approximately 22 parents endorsed concern 185 children word reading difficulty parental concern status accurately corresponded reading difficulty status 81 cases 95 ci 76 85 specificity 85 95 ci 80 90 sensitivity 59 95 ci 44 73 children unconcerned parents rarely word reading problems npv 91 95 ci 88 94 children concerned parents word reading difficulty 45 cases ppv 95 ci 36 54 apparent inaccuracy ie mismatch parental concern reading difficulty status related childrens word reading oral sentence recall skills english language learner ell status child age sex parent education many parents grade 2 children endorse reading concerns parental concern overall accurate screener word reading difficulty although children missed evidenceinformed recommendations responding parental concern provided