How should risk be communicated to children: A cross-sectional study comparing different formats of probability information

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Ulph, Fiona ^a   Townsend, Ellen ^b   Glazebrook, Cris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAME; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF CONCEPT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECREATION; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

CHILD; COMMUNICATION; COMPREHENSION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; GREAT BRITAIN; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; PROBABILITY LEARNING; RISK;

EID: 67650763713     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-9-26     Document Type: Article

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