Assessing consumer health vocabulary familiarity: An exploratory study

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Keselman, Alla ^a,b   Tse, Tony ^a   Crowell, Jon ^c   Browne, Allen ^a   Ngo, Long ^c   Zeng, Qing ^c,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b Aquilent Inc   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Consumer health informatics; Consumer health vocabulary; Evaluation studies; Health; Health education; Patients; Readability; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH SURVEY; READING; SCORING SYSTEM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONSUMER; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BOSTON; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 34249705212     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.9.1.e5     Document Type: Article

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