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Women often find this information difficult to understand and studies have demonstrated low levels of knowledge [ 4- 7].
(male, 87) Preoperative information, and especially the first meeting with the surgeon, was described as important despite participants finding the information difficult to understand.
The options "Do not want the extra expense", "Find the information difficult to understand" and "General disbelief in effectiveness of medication" were excluded from the analysis due to low frequency (1, 2, and 1 observations, respectively).
They found the item on the availability of clinical information difficult to understand and did not know what was meant by uninterpretable or indeterminate data or results, and felt that the background document did not clarify this.
Among the 357 persons who declined the medication offer, the main reasons stated were "Prefer to change lifestyle" (58%), "Wish to avoid the side-effects" (19%), "Too small effect" (13%), "Dislike taking medicine" (5%), "Find the information difficult to understand" (1%), "Do not want the extra expense" (<1%), "General disbelief in effectiveness of medication" (0.3%), and "Other reasons" (4%).
For participants who declined medication, the options were: "Too small effect of the medication", "Wish to avoid side-effects", "Do not want the extra expense", "Dislike taking medication", "Find the information difficult to understand", "Prefer to change lifestyle", and "General disbelief in effectiveness of medication".
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Participants who thought that the effectiveness information was difficult to understand, were less likely to consent to therapy (p = 0.004).
Current medication information is too difficult to understand for low health literate populations, which imposes a higher risk of misinterpreting prescription label instructions, dosage, duration, frequency, warning labels, written information and verbal pharmacist counseling.
This complex information may be difficult to understand for populations that already experience limitations in health knowledge.
In total 81% of the respondents indicated that the effectiveness information was not difficult to understand, while others found it somewhat difficult (14%), very difficult (4%) or impossible to understand (2%) (Table 2).
Furthermore, since a tweet is short and without sufficient contextual information, it is often difficult to understand the related information.
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