Do people understand their home HIV test results? Risk literacy and information search

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Volumn 2014-January, Issue , 2014, Pages 1323-1327

  Ellis, Katrina M ^a   Cokely, Edward T ^a   Ghazal, Saima ^a   Garcia Retamero, Rocio ^b  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; ERGONOMICS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISKS; STATISTICS; TESTING;

CURRENT STRENGTH; FALSE NEGATIVE RATE; HIGH SENSITIVITY; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; INFORMATION SEARCH; POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUES; RISK COMMUNICATION; RISK INFORMATION;

RISK PERCEPTION;

EID: 84957615142     PISSN: 10711813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1177/1541931214581276     Document Type: Conference Paper

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