The intervention resulted in significant and stable improvement in treated behaviours with increased scores for sentence comprehension, including the comprehension of spoken and written reversible sentences.
Moreover, some studies (Carpenter and Shah 1998; Pinker 1990; Shah and Carpenter 1995) have described the model of graph comprehension including three main processes: encoding visual array; identifying relations of the feature; and relating quantitative relations to the graphic variables.
The results of the patients pointed out some strengths (turn-taking in production, and request comprehension, including hints and the speaker's intention) and some weaknesses (topic maintenance in production and metapragmatic knowledge).
Treatment was followed by a gradual but significant improvement in auditory comprehension (including single-word comprehension).
Primary outcome was risk comprehension, including realistic expectations about benefits and harms of interventions.
29 Comprehension, including realistic expectations, was additionally assessed as a secondary outcome measure at 6 months follow-up.
Risk comprehension, including realistic expectations on the prevention of myocardial infarction, was assessed after the teaching session and at 6 months follow-up.
In contrast, the statistical lesion map for comprehension included 51% of the ventral fibre system but only 22% of the dorsal fibre system (Fig. 4C).
13 14 Tools that have been used extensively to assess informed consent comprehension include Brief Informed Consent Evaluation Protocol (BICEP), 15 Deaconess Informed Consent Comprehension Test (DICCT) 16 and the Quality of Informed Consent test (QuIC).
The major gaps for study participants in relation to communication and comprehension included use of incomprehensible specialist terms to explain medical concepts, lack of health and research awareness of participants, undue expectations and manipulation by researchers.
