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Jessie Chin

Researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Publications -  56
Citations -  590

Jessie Chin is an academic researcher from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health literacy & Reading (process). The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 48 publications receiving 480 citations. Previous affiliations of Jessie Chin include University of Illinois at Chicago & University of Waterloo.

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The process-knowledge model of health literacy: Evidence from a componential analysis of two commonly used measures

TL;DR: The results showed that older adults who had higher levels of processing capacity or knowledge (domain-general or health) performed better on both of the health literacy measures, supporting a process-knowledge model of health literacy among older adults, and have implications for selecting health literacy Measures in various health care contexts.
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Adaptive information search: age-dependent interactions between cognitive profiles and strategies

TL;DR: A study involving younger and older adults to compare their web search behavior and performance in ill-defined and well- defined information tasks using a health information website found that older adults performed worse than younger adults in well-defined tasks, but the reverse was true in ill -defined tasks.
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Searching for information on the web

TL;DR: Prior domain knowledge improves older adults query and navigation strategies and copes with the age-related decline of cognitive flexibility and outperformed by young ones in open-ended information problems.
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Interactive effects of age and interface differences on search strategies and performance

TL;DR: It is concluded that older adults were able to perform mental transformation of medical terms more effectively than younger adults and did not require changing strategies to maintain the same level of performance.
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Cognition and Health Literacy in Older Adults' Recall of Self-Care Information.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the relationship between a commonly used measure of health literacy (Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults [STOFHLA]) and comprehension of health information among 145 older adults.