High Altitude Illness: Knowledge, Practice, and Attitudes of Porters in Nepal.

Introduction: Porters working at high altitude face a number of preventable health risks ranging from frostbite to potentially fatal high-altitude pulmonary and cerebral edema. Porters are often recruited from impoverished low-altitude areas, poorly equipped in terms of protective clothing, and tasked with carrying loads that equal or exceed their body mass to high elevations. Despite a large population of porters working throughout mountainous parts of the world, there is little documentation regarding knowledge levels, attitudes, and practices related to the prevention of altitude illness in this population.

Addressing low health literacy with "Talking Pill Bottles": A pilot study in a community pharmacy setting.

Objectives: To test the effect of "Talking Pill Bottles" on medication self-efficacy, knowledge, adherence, and blood pressure readings among hypertensive patients with low health literacy and to assess patients' acceptance of this innovation.

Design: Longitudinal nonblinded randomized trial with standard treatment and intervention arms.

Setting And Participants: Two community pharmacies serving an ethnically diverse population in the Pacific Northwest.

Information Needs of Men with Localized Prostate Cancer During Radiation Therapy.

The purpose of this study was to describe how patient information needs change over the course of receiving radiation therapy for prostate cancer. Convenience sampling was utilized to recruit men with stage I-III prostate cancer. A longitudinal repeated measures design was implemented for this pilot study.

Actual use and perceived usefulness of a web-based, decision support program for men with prostate cancer.

The purpose of this pilot study was to develop and test the Personal Patient Profile-Prostate (P4), a customized, Internet-based decision support system for men with localized prostate cancer. In a sample of 30 men, the P4 program was successfully implemented in a clinical setting. Men reported the program useful and web-logs documented a high use rate of menu-driven components of the intervention.