"prevent understanding" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to indicate that something is making it difficult to understand a certain concept or idea. For example, "The language barrier was preventing understanding between the two sides."
Words can be used as bridges to understanding or as barriers to prevent understanding.
The inclusion criteria for the participants of the study were male ≥18 years old attending selected primary healthcare centers located in the Jazan region, no disabilities that would prevent understanding the questionnaire, no consumption of substances other than khat and tobacco, and no associated co-morbidities and history of chronic diseases.
It is a dialect continuum, in which neighbouring dialects are mutually intelligible but the cumulative differences impede or prevent understanding between groups that are some distance apart.
There exists an association between poverty and a feeling of lack of power in understanding the long term consequences associated with HIV because daily sustaining necessities of life prevent understanding of these consequences [ 30].
This is well in line with the multimodal aspect of protein structure prediction, where failure to sample suboptimal, but populated conformers may prevent understanding of biological mechanisms involving protein flexibility.
Another salient issue is that the opaqueness of trained networks prevents understanding the underlying models.
Among the targets of this remarkable book are the idea that the teaching of facts prevents understanding; that teacher-led instruction demands passivity from pupils; that "projects and activities" are the best way to learn; and that the teaching of knowledge is "indoctrination".
A dearth of events, particularly as a function of distance, prevents understanding whether or how merger rates change.
We encourage our fellow immigrants to use their voices and tell their stories, because often it is merely ignorance that prevents understanding.
A major problem that prevents understanding the space use of small organisms such as bees is that adequate long-distance tracking methodologies for such taxa have not been available (but see [2], [16]).
The paucity of these data additionally prevents understanding whether the VAP is endogenous or exogenous in origin.
