BH interviewed the patients following self-completion, asking them to provide feedback on the questionnaire, including difficulty understanding the questions.
Known barriers include: difficulties understanding complex policy recommendations, classifying foods in accordance with nutrient guidelines, and sourcing healthy foods.
Programming new challenges included difficulties in understanding the concept of "variables", difficulties in understanding the semantics of conditionals and nesting of conditionals, and difficulties in debugging and testing the code in parts.
Communication problems included difficulties in understanding refugees' cultural backgrounds, other languages, and the use of interpreters in encounters.
Reasons why the students found neurology difficult and uninteresting include difficulty in understanding neuroanatomy, lack of teaching aids/models and poor teaching of neurosciences subjects.
Other barriers to recognising and managing physical conditions include difficulty in understanding healthcare advice, reduced motivation to adopt new lifestyle changes, poor treatment compliance, cognitive deficits, reduced pain sensitivity (induced by antipsychotic medication), poor communication and social skills.
However, high-frequency hearing loss is associated with and may underpin everyday hearing problems, including difficulty in speech understanding in noisy environments.
Instead, the new manual will have a broader learning disorder category to cover several conditions including dyslexia, which causes difficulty understanding letters and recognising written words.
This will include people who have difficulty understanding the English language.
As expected, the men had great difficulty understanding complex grammar, including embedded phrases in sentences.
These individuals, who were subsequently included in the main study, had no difficulty understanding and completing the instrument.
