Readability, suitability, and writing for clients with limited literacy skills

Ames, Natalie

doi:10.1177/1468017318767091

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“…We developed and standardized a 6-week, home based, caregiver assisted neuropsychological rehabilitation program for adult patients with DRE [32] . This includes culturally suitable and readable graphic psychoeducational material on (a) neuropsychological consequences of epilepsy [33] and (b) compensatory training using internal and external aids as well as progressively difficult paper pencil tasks of visual attention, verbal memory and visual memory for cognitive retraining [34] , [35] , [36] , [37] . A weekly telephonic follow-up, compliance assessment and feedback were planned [9] .…”

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Suspend or amend? Randomized controlled trial on neuropsychological rehabilitation for epilepsy: A COVID-19 impact

Sharma

Nehra

Pandey

et al. 2022

Epilepsy & Behavior Reports

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COVID-19 caused devastating effects of human loss and suffering along with disruption in clinical research, forcing reconceptualization and modification of studies. This paper attempts to outline the steps followed and detail the modifications undertaken to deal with the impacts of the pandemic on the first ongoing randomized controlled trial on effectiveness of neuropsychological rehabilitation in adult patients with drug resistant epilepsy in India. All modifications were based on evolving guidelines and circumstantial context and were planned, reviewed and approved by important stakeholders. Results obtained from the trial need to be interpreted and analysed within this context. These modifications have implications for wider outreach of neuropsychology services in India.

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confidence: 99%

Suspend or amend? Randomized controlled trial on neuropsychological rehabilitation for epilepsy: A COVID-19 impact

Sharma

Nehra

Pandey

et al. 2022

Epilepsy & Behavior Reports

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DPre: Effective preprocessing techniques for social media depressive text

Rawat¹,

Jain²

2022

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Depression has become one of the most common public health issues. Several people with depression rely on social media to express their grief. The text data generated by these users can be exploited to promote study in this area in order to detect early-stage depression and provide support. However, to develop a reliable automatic depression detection system, the social media text cannot be used directly as there is a lot of irrelevant, inaccurate, and noisy information available. Moreover, the basic preprocessing steps which are used with most of the machine learning models have limited functionality and thus lead to lots of information loss. This loss of information is not affordable especially in the domain of affective computing (mental health) for text. In this paper, we present various preprocessing techniques for depressive text, DPre, to obtain readable text from raw and noisy tweets. This method can help in minimizing the loss of information and expressions hidden in the raw tweet. Moreover, the processed and clean text will be ready to input into any machine learning algorithm. The readability of the processed text is evaluated and compared with raw tweets using four readability scores: Flesch Reading Score, Flesch_kincaid Score, the Coleman-Liau Index, and Dale_Chall Score. Compared to basic state-of-art preprocessing methods, the proposed method significantly improved the readability score.

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Applicability of Compensatory Cognitive Training in Epilepsy to Low Resource and Literacy Settings

2021

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Epilepsy is one of the most prevalent neurological disorders, accounting for over 13 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). Nearly 80% of people with epilepsy live in low- and middle-income countries (WHO, 2019). Rehabilitation of cognitive impairments through compensatory training in such patients encompasses a wide range of techniques. However, interventional studies exploring their efficacy remain scarce despite being recommended in various reviews. Further, cultural contexts and other related factors have often been overlooked. We aimed to appraise the existing evidence on internal and external compensatory strategies in patients with epilepsy and identify the gaps and pitfalls in the existing literature for applicability to low resource and literacy settings from a neuropsychological perspective.

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Readability, suitability, and writing for clients with limited literacy skills

Cited by 3 publications

References 47 publications

Suspend or amend? Randomized controlled trial on neuropsychological rehabilitation for epilepsy: A COVID-19 impact

Suspend or amend? Randomized controlled trial on neuropsychological rehabilitation for epilepsy: A COVID-19 impact

DPre: Effective preprocessing techniques for social media depressive text

Applicability of Compensatory Cognitive Training in Epilepsy to Low Resource and Literacy Settings

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