Does illness experience influence the recall of medical information?
- aBehavioural Sciences Section, Department of Psychiatry, University of Nottingham, UK, bDepartment of Paediatrics, Nottingham City Hospital, Hucknall Road, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK
- Dr Smyth
- Accepted 6 July 1998
Abstract
Recall of a storyboard description of an unfamiliar illness was assessed in 66 healthy children and 40 children with chronic illness (cystic fibrosis or asthma). A significant interaction between verbal intelligence quotient and illness experience (p < 0.001) suggested that more able sick children may be resistant to learning new medical information.
