There was a general consensus that undiagnosed TB-patients, many of them being of African origin, experienced communication constraints in revealing possible infection when admitted, and, in the course of hospital admission, experienced difficulties in understanding the TB diagnosis and treatment procedures: " We give advice but we are not sure if they understand" (#6).
This study further concluded that participants experienced difficulty in understanding several research concepts: randomization, double-blind, and clinical equipoise.
For the MCMCglmm package in R, we experienced difficulties in understanding the syntax for specifying the prior of the variance parameters as explained in the manual.
Students also experienced difficulties in understanding concepts such as pathogenesis of diseases and signaling sequences of biochemical changes that could end in pathological changes.
This may relate to the stem being ambiguous, poor delivery of the teaching with students having experienced difficulty in understanding the topic such that the chosen response seems plausible to everyone.
Health professionals are an important source of information for women, yet studies have demonstrated they too can also experience difficulty in understanding the inherent complexities related to screening tests [ 8- 10].
In contrast, when teachers experience difficulty in understanding the subject matter, they seem to be less effective teaching it (Childs and McNicholl [2007]; Rollnick et al. [2008]).
Patients asked to participate in RCTs often experience difficulties in understanding the meaning of these and their justification.
These results suggest that the difficulties that people with delusions of communication experience in understanding gestures can be explained, at least in part, by the misattribution of self-generated internal events to external sources.
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