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A Psychometric Analysis of the Italian Version of the eHealth Literacy Scale Using Item Response and Classical Test Theory Methods

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A Typology of Patients Based on Decision-Making Styles: Cross-Sectional Survey Study

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

A preliminary mixed-method investigation of trust and hidden signals in medical consultations.

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Addressing issues of vaccination literacy and psychological empowerment in the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination decision-making: a qualitative study

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An empirical test of the Health Empowerment Model: Does patient empowerment moderate the effect of health literacy on health status?

scientific article published on 6 September 2017

An internet-based approach to enhance self-management of chronic low back pain in the Italian-speaking population of Switzerland: results from a pilot study

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Arguments and sources on Italian online forums on childhood vaccinations: Results of a content analysis

scientific article published on 16 November 2015

Assessing the predictive power of psychological empowerment and health literacy for older patients' participation in health care: a cross-sectional population-based study

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Assessing the quality of eHealth programs and their impact on health behaviour and health outcomes of users

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Association between Cancer Literacy and Cancer-Related Behaviour: Evidence from Ticino, Switzerland

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Blaming Devices in Online Communication of the COVID-19 pandemic: Stigmatizing cues and negative sentiment gauged with automated analytic techniques

scientific article published on 02 October 2020

Can social support work virtually? Evaluation of rheumatoid arthritis patients' experiences with an interactive online tool

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Causal Attribution and Coping Maxims Differences between Immigrants and Non-Immigrants Suffering from Back Pain in Switzerland

scientific article published on September 2016

Causes, coping, and culture: a comparative survey study on representation of back pain in three Swiss language regions

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Comparing the quality of pro- and anti-vaccination online information: a content analysis of vaccination-related webpages

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Consumer Decision-Making Based on Review Websites: Are There Differences Between Choosing a Hotel and Choosing a Physician?

scientific article published on 16 June 2016

Content, Quality, and Assessment Tools of Physician-Rating Websites in 12 Countries: Quantitative Analysis.

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Cross-cultural adaptation of the stroke action test for Italian--speaking people

scientific article published on 10 May 2015

Cyberdrugs: a cross-sectional study of online pharmacies characteristics

scientific article published on 16 January 2009

Debiasing Health-Related Judgments and Decision Making: A Systematic Review.

scientific article published on June 2017

Defining and measuring health literacy: how can we profit from other literacy domains?

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Development of an education campaign to reduce delays in pre-hospital response to stroke

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Differential effects of health knowledge and health empowerment over patients' self-management and health outcomes: a cross-sectional evaluation

scientific article published on 5 September 2012

Dissonant role perception and paradoxical adjustments: an exploratory study on Medical Residents' collaboration with Senior Doctors and Head Nurses.

scientific article published on October 2013

Distorted food pyramid in kids programmes: A content analysis of television advertising watched in Switzerland

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Do health literacy and patient empowerment affect self-care behaviour? A survey study among Turkish patients with diabetes.

scientific article published on 14 March 2016

Do participation and personalization matter? A model-driven evaluation of an Internet-based patient education intervention for fibromyalgia patients

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Does acculturation narrow the health literacy gap between immigrants and non-immigrants-An explorative study

scientific article published on 24 October 2016

Does argumentation matter? A systematic literature review on the role of argumentation in doctor-patient communication

scientific article published on 20 December 2013

Does regulatory fit lead to more effective health communication? A systematic review

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EMPOWER-support of patient empowerment by an intelligent self-management pathway for patients: study protocol

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Educating the Patient for Health Care Communication in the Age of the World Wide Web

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Effect of smoke-free legislation on Ticino gastronomy revenue

scientific article published on 22 August 2012

Effectiveness of a smartphone app to increase parents' knowledge and empowerment in the MMR vaccination decision: A randomized controlled trial.

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Effects of Self-Mastery on Adolescent and Parental Mental Health through the Mediation of Coping Ability Applying Dyadic Analysis

scientific article published on 27 November 2020

Effects of eHealth Literacy on General Practitioner Consultations: A Mediation Analysis

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Effects of functional interactivity on patients' knowledge, empowerment, and health outcomes: an experimental model-driven evaluation of a web-based intervention

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Emerging issues and future directions of the field of health communication

scientific article published on 17 December 2013

Evaluation of a Mobile Phone-Based Intervention to Increase Parents' Knowledge About the Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccination and Their Psychological Empowerment: Mixed-Method Approach.

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Exploring Health Information-Seeking Preferences of Older Adults With Hypertension: Quasi-Experimental Design

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Exploring the Measurement Properties of the eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS) Among Baby Boomers: A Multinational Test of Measurement Invariance.

scientific article published on 27 February 2017

Exploring the relationships between participatory decision-making, visit duration, and general practitioners' provision of argumentation to support their medical advice: results from a content analysis

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First insights on the validity of the concept of Cancer Literacy: A test in a sample of Ticino (Switzerland) residents

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Functional health literacy in Switzerland--validation of a German, Italian, and French health literacy test

scientific article published on 23 October 2012

Functional validity of a judgment skills measure within the concept of health literacy for sleeping disorder patients.

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H1N1 Influenza Pandemic in Italy Revisited: Has the Willingness to Get Vaccinated Suffered in the Long Run?

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Health Communication Research in Europe: An Emerging Field

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Health literacy and patient empowerment in health communication: the importance of separating conjoined twins

scientific article published on 12 October 2012

Health literacy and patient empowerment: separating con-joined twins in the context of chronic low back pain

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Health literacy beyond knowledge and behaviour: letting the patient be a patient

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Health literacy in Mainland China: Validation of a functional health literacy test in simplified Chinese

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Health literacy, health empowerment and health information search in the field of MMR vaccination: a cross-sectional study protocol

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How smartphone use becomes problematic: Application of the ALT-SR model to study the predicting role of personality traits

scientific article published in 2021

Identifying the field of health communication.

scientific article published on 20 March 2015

Impact of patients' judgment skills on asthma self-management: a pilot study

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Impact on Prehospital Delay of a Stroke Preparedness Campaign: A SW-RCT (Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial).

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Implicit Messages Regarding Unhealthy Foodstuffs in Chinese Television Advertisements: Increasing the Risk of Obesity.

scientific article published on 4 January 2018

Influence of Health Literacy on Effects of Patient Rating Websites: Survey Study Using a Hypothetical Situation and Fictitious Doctors

scientific article published on 06 April 2020

Influence of perceived parent and peer endorsement on adolescent smoking intentions: parents have more say, but their influence wanes as kids get older.

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Influences of health literacy, judgment skills, and empowerment on asthma self-management practices

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Information seeking and avoidance throughout the cancer patient journey: two sides of the same coin? A synthesis of qualitative studies.

scientific article published on 10 May 2014

Intentional and Unintentional Medication Non-Adherence in Hypertension: The Role of Health Literacy, Empowerment and Medication Beliefs.

scientific article published on 21 December 2016

Interactive sections of an Internet-based intervention increase empowerment of chronic back pain patients: randomized controlled trial.

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Introducing the chronic disease self-management program in Switzerland and other German-speaking countries: findings of a cross-border adaptation using a multiple-methods approach

scientific article published on 28 December 2015

Investigating the Effects of Mass Media Exposure on the Uptake of Preventive Measures by Hong Kong Residents during the 2015 MERS Outbreak: The Mediating Role of Interpersonal Communication and the Perception of Concern.

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Investigating young women's motivations to engage in early mammography screening in Switzerland: results of a cross-sectional study

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Is patient empowerment the key to promote adherence? A systematic review of the relationship between self-efficacy, health locus of control and medication adherence

scientific article published on 17 October 2017

Italian hospitals on the web: a cross-sectional analysis of official websites

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Judgment skills, a missing component in health literacy: development of a tool for asthma patients in the Italian-speaking region of Switzerland.

scientific article published on April 2014

Justifying Age Thresholds for Mammographic Screening: An Application of Pragma-Dialectical Argumentation Theory

scientific article published on 08 August 2011

Living with Gitelman disease: an insight into patients' daily experiences

scientific article published on February 14, 2012

Longitudinal qualitative exploration of cancer information-seeking experiences across the disease trajectory: the INFO-SEEK protocol

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Low health literacy and healthcare utilization among immigrants and non-immigrants in Switzerland.

scientific article published on 13 May 2017

Low health literacy associated with higher medication costs in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: Evidence from matched survey and health insurance data.

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Manipulating Google's Knowledge Graph Box to Counter Biased Information Processing During an Online Search on Vaccination: Application of a Technological Debiasing Strategy

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Mapping mHealth research: a decade of evolution

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Measurement invariance of the Short Wake Forest Physician Trust Scale and of the Health Empowerment Scale in German and French women

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Medical assessments of patient decisions and health literacy. A scenario-based measure of judgment skills

scientific article published on 29 July 2013

Medical information on the internet: a tool for measuring consumer perception of quality aspects

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Meeting the ranging of informational needs of chronic low back pain sufferers: conceptual design and rationale of the interactive website ONESELF.

scientific article published in January 2009

Micro-cultural customization of organ donation propagation messages.

scientific article published on 29 December 2017

More than nation and knowledge: cultural micro-diversity and organ donation in Switzerland.

scientific article published on 21 July 2006

Online Consultations in Cyberpharmacies: Completeness and Patient Safety

Online Newspaper Framing of Non-Communicable Diseases: Comparison of Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao

scientific article published on 03 August 2020

Online health information seeking in the context of the medical consultation in Switzerland

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Online patient education and risk assessment: project OPERA from Cancerbackup. Putting inherited breast cancer risk information into context using argumentation theory.

scientific article published on 21 June 2007

Parents' and peers' normative influence on adolescents' smoking: results from a Swiss-Italian sample of middle schools students

scientific article published on 21 January 2017

Patient behavior and the benefits of artificial intelligence: the perils of "dangerous" literacy and illusory patient empowerment

scientific article published on 3 June 2013

Patient knowledge of their own illness: How much does it matter and how may we adapt our information to what the patient knows?

scientific article published on 01 August 2012

Patients' need for information provision and perceived participation in decision making in doctor-patient consultation: Micro-cultural differences between French- and Italian-speaking Switzerland

scientific article published on 3 November 2015

Physician Rating Websites: What Aspects Are Important to Identify a Good Doctor, and Are Patients Capable of Assessing Them? A Mixed-Methods Approach Including Physicians' and Health Care Consumers' Perspectives

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Physicians' Communicative Strategies in Interacting With Internet-Informed Patients: Results From a Qualitative Study

scientific article published on 19 January 2012

Prior family communication and consent to organ donation: using intensive care physicians' perception to model decision processes

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Quality of online pharmacies and websites selling prescription drugs: a systematic review

scientific article published on 30 September 2011

Raising awareness of organ donation

scientific article published on 01 March 2007

Reconstructing normality following the diagnosis of a childhood chronic disease: does "rare" make a difference?

scientific article published on 16 January 2018

Reliability and validity of the cross-culturally adapted Italian version of the Core Outcome Measures Index

scientific article published on 17 March 2011

Response by Denti and Schulz to Letter Regarding Article, "Impact on Prehospital Delay of a Stroke Preparedness Campaign: A SW-RCT (Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial)"

scientific article published on 22 February 2018

Response to ‘Not all participatory styles are created equal’ by Kathryn I. Pollak, Ph.D

scientific article published on 15 December 2015

School-based diabetes interventions and their outcomes: a systematic literature review

scientific article published on February 2015

Self-management of chronic low back pain: An exploration of the impact of a patient-centered website

scientific article published on 24 March 2009

Should I pay for your risky behaviours? Evidence from London.

scientific article published on 16 June 2014

Social influences of health literacy and patient empowerment

scientific article published on 18 November 2013

The Effect of Information Communication Technology Interventions on Reducing Social Isolation in the Elderly: A Systematic Review

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The Effects of General Practitioners' Use of Argumentation to Support Their Treatment Advice: Results of an Experimental Study Using Video-Vignettes

scientific article published on 25 September 2014

The Measurements and an Elaborated Understanding of Chinese eHealth Literacy (C-eHEALS) in Chronic Patients in China

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The Mediated Amplification of a Crisis: Communicating the A/H1N1 Pandemic in Press Releases and Press Coverage in Europe

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The Relationship between Health Literacy and Health Disparities: A Systematic Review

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The doctor-patient relationship and patient resilience in chronic pain: A qualitative approach to patients' perspectives

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The effect of social support features and gamification on a Web-based intervention for rheumatoid arthritis patients: randomized controlled trial

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The impact of presentation style on the retention of online health information: a randomized-controlled experiment

scientific article published on 20 June 2012

The impact of search engine selection and sorting criteria on vaccination beliefs and attitudes: two experiments manipulating Google output.

scientific article published on 02 April 2014

The impact of social support on the acceptance process among RA patients: a qualitative study

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The process of acceptance among rheumatoid arthritis patients in Switzerland: a qualitative study

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The rabbit in the hat: dubious argumentation and the persuasive effects of prescription drug advertising (DTCA).

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The relationship between functional health literacy and the use of the health system by diabetics in Switzerland.

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The role of health literacy in predicting adherence to nutritional recommendations: A systematic review

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The world of e-patients: A content analysis of online social networks focusing on diseases.

scientific article published on 11 November 2010

Toward automated assessment of health Web page quality using the DISCERN instrument.

scientific article published on 5 October 2016

Unsusceptible to Social Communication? The Fixture of the Factors Predicting Decisions on Different Vaccinations

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

Use of Cognitive Enhancement Medication Among Northern Italian University Students

scientific article published on June 1, 2012

Using protection motivation theory to predict intention to adhere to official MMR vaccination recommendations in Switzerland

scientific article published on 15 November 2018

Validation of Turkish health literacy measures

scientific article published on 13 January 2015

Validity of Three Brief Health Literacy Screeners to Measure Functional Health Literacy - Evidence from Five Different Countries

scientific article published on 10 January 2018

What are parents' perspectives on psychological empowerment in the MMR vaccination decision? A focus group study.

scientific article published on 15 April 2016

What should laypersons know about cancer? Towards an operational definition of cancer literacy.

scientific article published on 5 October 2010

What to eat in the land of cheese and chocolate: a content analysis of Swiss print media messages on a healthy diet

scientific article published in January 2011

“Save 30% if you buy today”. Online pharmacies and the enhancement of peripheral thinking in consumers

scientific article published on 01 September 2010