Background Effective risk communication is essential for informed decision making.
Unfortunately, many people struggle to understand typical risk communications because …

Visualizations—visual representations of information, depicted in graphics—are studied by
researchers in numerous ways, ranging from the study of the basic principles of creating …

The ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 has already had serious worldwide health, socio-
economic, political, and educational consequences. In the present study, we investigated …

Background: Effective communication of risks and benefits to patients is critical for shared
decision making. Purpose: To review the comparative effectiveness of methods of …

Perception of health risk can affect medical decisions and health behavior change. Yet the
concept of risk is a difficult one for the public to grasp. Whether perceptions of risk affect …

Informed decision making requires that people understand health risks. Unfortunately, many
people are not risk literate and are biased by common risk communication practices. In this …

Many people have difficulties gras** numerical concepts that are prerequisites for
understanding treatment risk reduction. Visual aids have been proposed as a promising …

Abstract Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)—including HIV/AIDS—are among the most
common infectious diseases in young adults. How can we effectively promote prevention …

While uncertainty is present in most data analysis pipelines, reasoning with uncertainty is
challenging for novices and experts alike. Fortunately, researchers are making significant …

Doctors and patients have difficulty inferring the predictive value of a medical test from
information about the prevalence of a disease and the sensitivity and false-positive rate of …