Examining the association of health literacy and numeracy with prostate-related knowledge and prostate cancer treatment regret.

CONCLUSIONS: We identified lower health literacy among African American men, and lower prostate-related knowledge in those with poor health literacy. To our knowledge, this is the first study to show an association between health literacy and prostate cancer treatment regret. PMID: 32448502 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32448502?dopt=Abstract

Source: Urologic Oncology - May 20, 2020 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joyce DD, Heslop DL, Umoh JI, Brown SD, Robles JA, Wallston KA, Moses KA Tags: Urol Oncol Source Type: research