These results indicate that COPD patients with weaker perceptions of identity and greater understanding (comprehensibility) of the disease have better HRQoL.
For example, in a study assessing hospital-level characteristics on mortality after acute myocardial infarction the OR point estimates were of interest more than their statistical significance, so an ordinary logistic regression model was applied for its greater familiarity and hence comprehensibility [ 53].
Clarity again matters for comprehension and comprehensibility contributes to persuasiveness.
COPD patients have better HRQoL when they experience fewer symptoms attributed to COPD (identity), experience less impact in daily life (consequences), experience fewer emotional consequences (emotional response), have stronger beliefs about control of their treatment and have a greater understanding of the disease (comprehensibility).
The accident scenario training significantly improved the comprehension of the warning symbols; however, of greater interest, is the effect of symbol characteristics (complexity and comprehensibility) on initial comprehension and learning of warning symbols by older adults.
Although earlier research indicated that older adults had greater difficulty with high complexity and low comprehensibility symbols (Lesch et al. 2011), we found that it is the nature of the added complexity that is critical – increased complexity aids older adults' comprehension if the additional information (in this case, contextual cues) serves to further refine the meaning of the symbol.
Comprehensibility and coherence are of great importance for patients in an illness and recovery process, as has been increasingly demonstrated in scientific studies not least for the quality of the coping process and life with or after the illness [ 25, 26].
In large software systems criteria like maintainability, comprehensibility and extensibility play an important role.
Mithra Mastropierro (Annina) and Won Whi Choi (Michele) sang strongly in "The Saint," but their heavy accents and imperfect diction limited comprehensibility.
Yet, as the prolific architect said: "We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and anonymity, comprehensibility and universality.
