Does illness experience influence the recall of medical information?
Recall of a storyboard description of an unfamiliar illness was assessed in 66 healthy children and 40 children with chronic illness (cystic fibrosis or asthma). A significant interaction between verbal intelligence quotient and illness experience (p < 0.001) suggested that more able sick children may be resistant to learning new medical information.
Krishnan
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Nottingham, UK.
Glazebrook
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Smyth
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D000704:Analysis of Variance; D018798:Anemia, Iron-Deficiency; D001249:Asthma / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003550:Cystic Fibrosis / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011581:Psychological Tests