THE EFFECT OF HEALTH LITERACY ON A BRIEF INTERVENTION TO IMPROVE ADVANCE DIRECTIVE COMPLETION: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED STUDY

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

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.Methods A randomized controlled study was conducted in 2 internal medicine clinics.Participants were over 50,

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Cortical Gray Matter Loss, Augmented Vulnerability to Speech-on-Speech Masking, and Delusion in People With Schizophrenia

People ice blue graphic tee with schizophrenia exhibit impairments in target-speech recognition (TSR) against multiple-talker-induced informational speech masking.Up to date, the underlying neural mechanisms and its relationships with psychotic symptoms remain largely unknown.This study aimed to investigate whether the schizophrenia-associated TSR

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