Skill Set or Mind Set? Associations between Health Literacy, Patient Activation and Health

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Smith, Samuel G ^a   Curtis, Laura M ^b   Wardle, Jane ^a   von Wagner, Christian ^a   Wolf, Michael S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PATIENT ACTIVATION MEASURE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOMES MEASUREMENT INFORMATION SERVICE SHORT FORM; SELF CARE; SHORT FORM 36; SKILL; TEST OF FUNCTIONAL HEALTH LITERACY IN ADULTS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PATIENTS;

EID: 84883404904     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074373     Document Type: Article

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