Lorie Donelle|José F. Arocha|Laurie Hoffman?Goetz
Health Literacy and Numeracy: Key Factors in Cancer Risk Comprehension
Western University|University of Waterloo|University of Waterloo|University of Waterloo|Western University
age chronic disease shared decision making individuals encouraged contribute decisions health care health literacy including numeracy requisite meaningful participation accepted determinant health purpose study describe influence literacy consisting prose numeracy skill math anxiety attained education context information participant ability comprehend internetbased colorectal cancer prevention information prose numeracy mathanxiety data well demographic details collected 140 canadian adults aged 50 years participants adequate prose literacy stofhla scores high stofhla numeracy scores moderate levels healthcontext numeracy poorer generalcontext numeracy moderate math anxiety better comprehension participants common 91411 compared uncommon 76411 colorectal cancer information p 001 prose literacy numeracy math anxiety attained education accounted 60 variation participant comprehension scores numeracy ranging basic advanced proficiency required understand online cancer risk information prose literacy enhances numeracy subject matter less familiar findings highlight importance presenting webbased information accommodates diverse health literacy numeracy levels