While such findings do not necessarily mean that health professionals have inadequate understanding or competence in their work practices, questions arise as to what effect this gap in knowledge can have in the justification and optimisation of MI examinations.
Furthermore, critics have pointed out that international partners may have inadequate understanding of, and experience of working within, the local culture and conditions, and that even experts can have minimal relevant field experience, especially in developing countries [ 32].
We can assume that those with a lower level of education have inadequate understanding about possible diabetic complications and fewer opportunities to meet physicians, and thus are less likely to receive appropriate preventive care services for diabetes complications.
Studies with Arab Muslim teachers found that they had inadequate understandings of the nature of science because in their professional programs they were not exposed to the scientific principles, approaches, and methods that are used to generate and test scientific claims (Haidar 1997, 1999, 2002).
To study if Asian ethnic groups in Hawaii today maintain folk-based beliefs about dementia, have inadequate biomedical understanding of dementia, and differ among each other regarding perceptions of dementia.
At present, we have inadequate quantitative understanding of how controls at these different levels work, and only an elemental sense of the initial set up.
This new breed of Republican has an inadequate understanding of the Constitution and an even lesser understanding of their constituents.
Some teachers have inadequate knowledge and understanding of the subject (Rutledge and Mitchell 2002); others don't "believe" in it for their own personal reasons (Berkman et al. 2008); still others are reluctant to broach the topic for fear of stirring up controversy.
Studies have shown that the majority of school personnel have an inadequate understanding of diabetes (21, 22).
Richman et al., in a study of 78 breast cancer patients who had previously received gene expression profiling, reported that many women had an inadequate understanding of gene profiling [ 12].
