Nicolas Haverkamp, Janina Barth, Dennis Schmidt, Uta Dahmen, Oliver Keis, Tobias Raupach
Position statement of the GMA committee "teaching evaluation"
GMS journal for medical education
health literacy numeracy necessary understand health information make informed medical decisions study explored relationships among health literacy numeracy ability accurately interpret graphical representations breast cancer risk participants n120 recruited facing risk cancer empowered force membership health literacy numeracy assessed participants interpreted graphs depicting breast cancer risk made hypothetical treatment decisions rated preference graphs participants caucasian 98 completed least one year college 93 fiftytwo percent breast cancer 86 family history breast cancer 57 deleterious brca gene mutation mean health literacy score 6566 mean numeracy score 46 mean graphicacy score 912 education numeracy significantly associated accurate graph interpretation r042 p0001 r065 p0001 respectively however adjusting numeracy multivariate linear regression education added little prediction graphicacy r2041 versus 042 respectively highly healthliterate population numeracy predictive graphicacy effective risk communication strategies consider impact numeracy graphicacy patient understanding