Faces Scales for Anxiety and Anger: A National Study of Measurement Properties.

Faces scales are used worldwide to assess pain, but robust faces scales for anxiety and anger do not exist. These scales are urgently needed, because an estimated two-thirds of patients have difficulty reading written questionnaires. To develop and evaluate measurement properties of faces scales to monitor two mental health symptoms in US adults (anxiety and anger) in accordance with the COnsensus-based Standards for health Measurement INstruments (COSMIN).

Effect of Expansion of Abbreviations and Acronyms on Patient Comprehension of Their Health Records: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

This randomized clinical trial compares patient comprehension of electronic health records in the US when common medical abbreviations are expanded.

Correlates of Mental Health Symptoms Among US Adults During COVID-19, March-April 2020.

Objectives: An understanding of mental health symptoms during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is critical to ensure that health policies adequately address the mental health needs of people in the United States. The objective of this study was to examine mental health symptoms among US adults in an early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study in late March 2020 with a national sample of 963 US adults using an online research platform.

Visual analogies, not graphs, increase patients' comprehension of changes in their health status.

Objectives: Patients increasingly use patient-reported outcomes (PROs) to self-monitor their health status. Visualizing PROs longitudinally (over time) could help patients interpret and contextualize their PROs. The study sought to assess hospitalized patients' objective comprehension (primary outcome) of text-only, non-graph, and graph visualizations that display longitudinal PROs.