Do Low-Numeracy People Avoid Shared Decision Making?

Health Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 336-341

  Galesic, Mirta ^a   Garcia Retamero, Rocio ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cross cultural research; Numeracy; Paternalistic decision making; Risk communication; Shared decision making

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT PREFERENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955984452     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: 19307810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022723     Document Type: Article

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