Designing Visual Aids That Promote Risk Literacy: A Systematic Review of Health Research and Evidence-Based Design Heuristics

Nursesʼ Numeracy and Graphical Literacy

(2016) Karen Dunn Lopez et al.   JOURNAL OF NURSING CARE QUALITY

Measuring Graph Literacy without a Test

(2016) Rocio Garcia-Retamero et al.   MEDICAL DECISION MAKING

Improving risk literacy in surgeons

(2016) Rocio Garcia-Retamero et al.   PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING

Relevance of graph literacy in the development of patient-centered communication tools

(2016) Jasmir G. Nayak et al.   PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING

Brief Messages to Promote Prevention and Detection of Sexually Transmitted Infections

(2015) Rocio Garcia-Retamero et al.   CURRENT HIV RESEARCH

Effect of visual aids and individual differences of cognitive traits in judgments on food safety

(2015) Hidehito Honda et al.   FOOD POLICY

Is Patients’ Numeracy Related to Physical and Mental Health?

(2015) Rocio Garcia-Retamero et al.   MEDICAL DECISION MAKING

The Effect of Different Graphical and Numerical Likelihood Formats on Perception of Likelihood and Choice

(2015) Jurriaan P. Oudhoff et al.   MEDICAL DECISION MAKING

Understanding the Harms and Benefits of Cancer Screening

(2015) Dafina Petrova et al.   MEDICAL DECISION MAKING

Factors predicting surgeons’ preferred and actual roles in interactions with their patients.

(2014) Rocio Garcia-Retamero et al.   HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

The Impact of Numeracy on Verbatim Knowledge of the Longitudinal Risk for Prostate Cancer Recurrence following Radiation Therapy

(2014) Daniel A. Hamstra et al.   MEDICAL DECISION MAKING

Association of Numeracy and Diabetes Control

(2013) Kerri Cavanaugh et al.   ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Blocks, Ovals, or People? Icon Type Affects Risk Perceptions and Recall of Pictographs

(2013) Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher et al.   MEDICAL DECISION MAKING

Communicating global cardiovascular risk: Are icon arrays better than numerical estimates in improving understanding, recall and perception of risk?

(2013) Jorge G. Ruiz et al.   PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING

Visual representation of statistical information improves diagnostic inferences in doctors and their patients

(2013) Rocio Garcia-Retamero et al.   SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

Using Animated Computer-generated Text and Graphics to Depict the Risks and Benefits of Medical Treatment

(2012) Alan R. Tait et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Assessing the Effect of Visualizations on Bayesian Reasoning through Crowdsourcing

(2012) Luana Micallef et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS

Animated Graphics for Comparing Two Risks: A Cautionary Tale

(2012) Brian J Zikmund-Fisher et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH

The Numeracy Understanding in Medicine Instrument

(2012) Marilyn M. Schapira et al.   MEDICAL DECISION MAKING

On avoiding framing effects in experienced decision makers

(2012) Rocio Garcia-Retamero et al.   QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Effects of spatial compatibility on integration processes in graph comprehension

(2011) Lynn Huestegge et al.   Attention Perception & Psychophysics

Physiciansʼ communication of Down syndrome screening test results: The influence of physician numeracy

(2011) Britta L. Anderson et al.   GENETICS IN MEDICINE

Pictures speak louder than numbers: on communicating medical risks to immigrants with limited non-native language proficiency

(2011) Rocio Garcia-Retamero et al.   HEALTH EXPECTATIONS

Do low-numeracy people avoid shared decision making?

(2011) Mirta Galesic et al.   HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

Numbers can be worth a thousand pictures: Individual differences in understanding graphical and numerical representations of health-related information.

(2011) Wolfgang Gaissmaier et al.   HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

Impact of format and content of visual display of data on comprehension, choice and preference: a systematic review

(2011) Zoe Hildon et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR QUALITY IN HEALTH CARE

Which literacy skills are associated with smoking?

(2011) Laurie T Martin et al.   JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH

Cool but Counterproductive: Interactive, Web-Based Risk Communications Can Backfire

(2011) Brian J Zikmund-Fisher et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH

The Influence of Graphic Display Format on the Interpretations of Quantitative Risk Information among Adults with Lower Education and Literacy

(2011) Kirsten J. McCaffery et al.   MEDICAL DECISION MAKING

Perceived Effectiveness of Stop Smoking Interventions: Impact of Presenting Evidence Using Numbers, Visual Displays, and Different Timeframes

(2011) F. Vogt et al.   NICOTINE & TOBACCO RESEARCH

The effect of numeracy on the comprehension of information about medicines in users of a patient information website

(2011) Peter H. Gardner et al.   PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING

Use of a Visual Aid to Improve Counseling at the Threshold of Viability

(2011) V. Kakkilaya et al.   PEDIATRICS

Visualizing Uncertainty About the Future

(2011) D. Spiegelhalter et al.   SCIENCE

Neurocognition, Health-Related Reading Literacy, and Numeracy in Medication Management for HIV Infection

(2010) Drenna Waldrop-Valverde et al.   AIDS PATIENT CARE AND STDS

Presenting Research Risks and Benefits to Parents

(2010) Alan R. Tait et al.   ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA

Statistical Numeracy for Health

(2010) Mirta Galesic   ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Numeracy Skills in CKD: Correlates and Outcomes

(2010) K. Abdel-Kader et al.   Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Choice, numeracy, and physicians-in-training performance: The case of Medicare Part D.

(2010) Yaniv Hanoch et al.   HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

Behavioral interventions to increase HPV vaccination acceptability among mothers of young girls.

(2010) Dena S. Cox et al.   HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

How to Reduce the Effect of Framing on Messages About Health

(2010) Rocio Garcia-Retamero et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE

Effect of Arrangement of Stick Figures on Estimates of Proportion in Risk Graphics

(2010) Jessica S. Ancker et al.   MEDICAL DECISION MAKING

Effects of Game-Like Interactive Graphics on Risk Perceptions and Decisions

(2010) Jessica S. Ancker et al.   MEDICAL DECISION MAKING

Graph Literacy

(2010) Mirta Galesic et al.   MEDICAL DECISION MAKING

A Demonstration of ‘‘Less Can Be More’’ in Risk Graphics

(2010) Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher et al.   MEDICAL DECISION MAKING

Do Icon Arrays Help Reduce Denominator Neglect?

(2010) Rocio Garcia-Retamero et al.   MEDICAL DECISION MAKING

Communicating consequences of risky behaviors: Life expectancy versus risk of disease

(2010) Mirta Galesic et al.   PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING

Using plausible group sizes to communicate information about medical risks

(2010) Rocio Garcia-Retamero et al.   PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING

Health literacy, numeracy, and interpretation of graphical breast cancer risk estimates

(2010) Sandra M. Brown et al.   PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING

Who proficts from visual aids: Overcoming challenges in people's understanding of risks

(2010) Rocio Garcia-Retamero et al.   SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

Communicating Treatment Risk Reduction to People With Low Numeracy Skills: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

(2009) Rocio Garcia-Retamero et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Addressing Literacy and Numeracy to Improve Diabetes Care: Two randomized controlled trials

(2009) K. Cavanaugh et al.   DIABETES CARE

Using icon arrays to communicate medical risks: Overcoming low numeracy.

(2009) Mirta Galesic et al.   HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

Effect of Risk Communication Formats on Risk Perception Depending on Numeracy

(2009) Carmen Keller et al.   MEDICAL DECISION MAKING

The Challenge of Shared Decision Making Among Patients With Lower Literacy: A Framework for Research and Development

(2009) Kirsten J. McCaffery et al.   MEDICAL DECISION MAKING

Linking numeracy and asthma-related quality of life

(2009) Andrea J. Apter et al.   PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING

The role of numeracy on client knowledge in BRCA genetic counseling

(2009) David B. Portnoy et al.   PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING

How numeracy influences risk comprehension and medical decision making.

(2009) Valerie F. Reyna et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Patients Prefer Pictures to Numbers to Express Cardiovascular Benefit From Treatment

(2008) F. Goodyear-Smith et al.   ANNALS OF FAMILY MEDICINE

A Theory of Medical Decision Making and Health: Fuzzy Trace Theory

(2008) Valerie F. Reyna   MEDICAL DECISION MAKING

Low Numeracy Skills Are Associated With Higher BMI

(2008) Mary Margaret Huizinga et al.   Obesity

Demographic disparities in numeracy among emergency department patients: Evidence from two multicenter studies

(2008) Adit A. Ginde et al.   PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING

Communicating side effect risks in a tamoxifen prophylaxis decision aid: The debiasing influence of pictographs

(2008) Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher et al.   PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING

The impact of the format of graphical presentation on health-related knowledge and treatment choices

(2008) Sarah T. Hawley et al.   PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING

Probability Information in Risk Communication: A Review of the Research Literature

(2008) Vivianne H. M. Visschers et al.   RISK ANALYSIS