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Experience in a Climate Microworld: Influence of Surface and Structure Learning, Problem Difficulty, and Decision Aids in Reducing Stock-Flow Misconceptions

Medha Kumar, Varun Dutt, Varun Dutt • Frontiers in Psychology (2018)

Research shows that people’s wait-and-see preferences for actions against climate change are a result of several factors, including cognitive misconceptions. The use of simulation tools could help reduce these misconceptions concerning Eart...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00299

Is a prostate cancer screening anxiety measure invariant across two different samples of age-appropriate men?

Linder Suzanne K, Swank Paul R, Vernon Sally W, Morgan Robert O et al. • BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (2012)

Abstract Background In order to explore the influence of anxiety on decision–making processes, valid anxiety measures are needed. We evaluated a prostate cancer screening (PCS) anxiety scale that measures anxiety related to the prostate–spe...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-12-52

The Effect of Health Literacy on a Brief Intervention to Improve Advance Directive Completion: A Randomized Controlled Study

Paige C. Barker, Neal P. Holland, Oliver Shore, Robert L. Cook et al. • Journal of Primary Care & Community Health (2021)

Objective Completion of an advance directive (AD) document is one component of advanced care planning. We evaluated a brief intervention to enhance AD completion and assess whether the intervention effect varied according to health literacy...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/21501327211000221