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Using a survey design, we found that people higher in perceived health competence were lower in anxiety and took a more logical approach to decision making. Low perceived health competence was associated with avoidant decision making. Levels of learning were predicted by perceived health competence, decision-making orientations and anxiety. Perceived health competence was a significant positive predictor of both learning from health professionals and of learning from other sources, such as the internet. Rational decision-making orientation and anxiety, however, were not associated with learning from medical professionals but were predictive of levels of learning from other sources. Highly dependent decision makers reported learning more from their medical professionals. The implications for theory and practice are explored.  \nKeywords: learning, health competence, anxiety, decision making  \nLearning about health 519  \nIntroduction  \nPatients need to understand their health conditions in order to make good choices. We examine the extent to which patients of general practitioners learn about their health from different sources and we identify important psycho-cognitive variables that predict learning. Our study contributes to a greater understanding of adult patient behaviour and underlines yet again the importance of developing positive orientations to learning in our adult population.  \nIn this paper, we establish the importance of patients’ understanding of their health conditions. We review the literature on predictors of information seeking and learning, considering in turn perceived health competence, decision-making orientations and anxiety.  \nOver the past decades, the model of medical decision making has shifted from one where doctors took decisions on behalf of their patients to a more egalitarian model where patients are expected to participate actively in decisions regarding their health care (Kaba & Sooriakumaran 2007) . This shift is now enshrined in regulatory guidelines, patient rights declarations, health policy and law (Pataket al. 2009; Waterworth & Luker 1990). The move towards patientcentred care and shared decision making is recognised not only as appropriate in societal terms but also as having a positive impact on health (Mead & Bower 2000) . Patients who know more about their health and participate in decision making stay safe (Davis, Jacklin, Sevdalis & Vincent 2007) and maintain better health (Kickbusch 2001) .  \nRecently health literacy or health competence has emerged as a concept both within health care and within adult education. It has been defined as ‘The degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions’ by the US Department of Health and Human Services (2010: 1) . Efforts have been made  \n520 Susan Geertshuis and Helena Cooper-Thomas  \nto measure health literacy in the form of a series of competencies (Steckelberg, Hülfenhaus, Kasper, Rost & Mühlhauser 2007) . The results of these studies suggest that a high proportion of the general population does not have the competencies to understand adequately and manage their own health (Barber et al. 2009). At present we do not know why some patients are well-informed and actively involved in their own health-related learning and others are not. Educational level and socio-economic status have been identified as predictors of health literacy (Barber et al. 2009; Paasche-Orlow 2005), demand for information (Ayers 2007; Dutta-Bergman 2003) and participation in decisions (Kaplan, Gandek, Greenfield, Rogers & War","cbCaikSKJgYYYA6N","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikSKJgYYYA6N","pdf",533689,29,"English","# Introduction\n## Health literacy/competence and adult education context\n## Research question and key variables\n## Perceived health competence, self-efficacy, and learning mechanisms","[{\"question\":\"What does the paper investigate about patients’ learning?\",\"answer\":\"It examines the extent to which patients learn about their health conditions from different sources and identifies psycho-cognitive variables that predict such learning.\"},{\"question\":\"How does perceived health competence relate to anxiety and decision making?\",\"answer\":\"Higher perceived health competence is linked to lower anxiety and a more logical approach to decision making, while low perceived health competence is associated with avoidant decision making.\"},{\"question\":\"Which factors predict learning from health professionals versus other sources?\",\"answer\":\"Perceived health competence predicts learning from both health professionals and other sources such as the internet. 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