The document states that "reasonable accommodations" must be made for at-risk detainees, including "regular and frequent" supervision and extra efforts to ensure they comprehend instructions.
Exclusion criteria for all children included: (1) known chronic illness requiring medical care; (2) known developmental delay; or (3) prior history of coma, head trauma, hospitalization for malnutrition, or cerebral palsy; (4) severe neurologic complications from the malaria episode that hinder the child's ability to comprehend instructions and perform manual tasks on the computer.
In both processes, test takers moved back and forth among reading introductory part, reading summarize.., reading time allowance, and reading minimum number of words reiteratively to interpret and comprehend instruction's non-graphic information.
This pilot study was just performed to ensure the ease of comprehending the instructions by the participants, and none of the subjects were included in the main study.
Data from seven subjects were excluded: one due to failure in data acquisition; one due to failure in comprehending task instructions, and five subjects showed poor memory performance at or close to chance level (25%) in the associative memory test.
Low literacy skills have implications for health, whether in comprehending written instructions for taking medicines [ 1] or ability to understand one's medical condition [ 2].
Future studies need to examine the acceptability and feasibility of using the AIOS, given the possibility that some populations may experience difficulty comprehending the instructions for completing a visual analogue scale format.
Signs include: Problems comprehending rapid instructions or recalling sequences of commands.
For breast cancer risk assessment tools, health literacy can affect the user's ability to comprehend the instructions to accurately complete the risk tool, as well as the user's ability to comprehend the risk tool's output.
And, many of these patients struggle to read and comprehend complex instructions and medical terminology.
