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How the stigma of low literacy can impair patient-professional spoken interactions and affect health: insights from a qualitative investigation

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, August 2013
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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6 news outlets
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Title
How the stigma of low literacy can impair patient-professional spoken interactions and affect health: insights from a qualitative investigation
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, August 2013
DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-13-319
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Authors

Phyllis Easton, Vikki A Entwistle, Brian Williams

Abstract

Low literacy is a significant problem across the developed world. A considerable body of research has reported associations between low literacy and less appropriate access to healthcare services, lower likelihood of self-managing health conditions well, and poorer health outcomes. There is a need to explore the previously neglected perspectives of people with low literacy to help explain how low literacy can lead to poor health, and to consider how to improve the ability of health services to meet their needs.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 5 2%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Peru 1 <1%
Unknown 248 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 38 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 35 14%
Student > Bachelor 30 12%
Researcher 24 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 18 7%
Other 62 24%
Unknown 52 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 65 25%
Social Sciences 36 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 31 12%
Psychology 15 6%
Arts and Humanities 11 4%
Other 40 15%
Unknown 61 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 110. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 July 2022.
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#363,335
of 24,641,327 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#56
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#2,410
of 180,696 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#1
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