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The relationship between health literacy with health status and healthcare utilization in 18-64 years old people in Isfahan

BACKGROUND: Today, much attention has been paid to the patient role as the central factor in the management of their own health. It is focused on the issue that the patient has a more critical role compared with the health-care provider in controlling the patient own health. defines health literacy...

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Autores principales: Karimi, Saeed, Keyvanara, Mahmoud, Hosseini, Mohsen, Jazi, Marzie Jafarian, Khorasani, Elahe
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4113988/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25077168
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2277-9531.134910
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author Karimi, Saeed
Keyvanara, Mahmoud
Hosseini, Mohsen
Jazi, Marzie Jafarian
Khorasani, Elahe
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Keyvanara, Mahmoud
Hosseini, Mohsen
Jazi, Marzie Jafarian
Khorasani, Elahe
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description BACKGROUND: Today, much attention has been paid to the patient role as the central factor in the management of their own health. It is focused on the issue that the patient has a more critical role compared with the health-care provider in controlling the patient own health. defines health literacy 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. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine health literacy, health status, healthcare utilization and the relationship between them in 18 - 64 years old people in Isfahan. STRUCTURE AND DESIGN: This study was a descriptive analytical survey, which was conducted on 300 subjects of 18-64 years old in Isfahan with Multi-stage sampling method proportional to selected sample size. MATERIALS AND METHODS: For collecting the data, questionnaire adapted from CHAP (Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) health literacy questionnaire was used. Health status was measured based on an assessment of the physical and mental health over the past 6 months by 5° Likert scale. Data analysis was performed by using SPSS 18, descriptive statistics, Chi-square test and multivariate analysis of variance. RESULTS: There was no significant correlation between health literacy, health status and healthcare utilization. Utilization was less in the urban area No. 6 of the city. In the bachelor's degree group, the health status was lower than the other groups in these cases: Older ages, married, women, large family size, undergraduates, and urban area No. 14. CONCLUSIONS: Due to the average prevalence of health literacy in 18-64 years old individuals in Isfahan and low- healthcare utilization, the followings are recommended: Necessity of more attention to the issue of health literacy, improving the physician-patient relationship and community awareness, whether through health promotion programs or media for the optimum use of available resources.
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spelling pubmed-41139882014-07-30 The relationship between health literacy with health status and healthcare utilization in 18-64 years old people in Isfahan Karimi, Saeed Keyvanara, Mahmoud Hosseini, Mohsen Jazi, Marzie Jafarian Khorasani, Elahe J Educ Health Promot Original Article BACKGROUND: Today, much attention has been paid to the patient role as the central factor in the management of their own health. It is focused on the issue that the patient has a more critical role compared with the health-care provider in controlling the patient own health. defines health literacy 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. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine health literacy, health status, healthcare utilization and the relationship between them in 18 - 64 years old people in Isfahan. STRUCTURE AND DESIGN: This study was a descriptive analytical survey, which was conducted on 300 subjects of 18-64 years old in Isfahan with Multi-stage sampling method proportional to selected sample size. MATERIALS AND METHODS: For collecting the data, questionnaire adapted from CHAP (Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) health literacy questionnaire was used. Health status was measured based on an assessment of the physical and mental health over the past 6 months by 5° Likert scale. Data analysis was performed by using SPSS 18, descriptive statistics, Chi-square test and multivariate analysis of variance. RESULTS: There was no significant correlation between health literacy, health status and healthcare utilization. Utilization was less in the urban area No. 6 of the city. In the bachelor's degree group, the health status was lower than the other groups in these cases: Older ages, married, women, large family size, undergraduates, and urban area No. 14. CONCLUSIONS: Due to the average prevalence of health literacy in 18-64 years old individuals in Isfahan and low- healthcare utilization, the followings are recommended: Necessity of more attention to the issue of health literacy, improving the physician-patient relationship and community awareness, whether through health promotion programs or media for the optimum use of available resources. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4113988/ /pubmed/25077168 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2277-9531.134910 Text en Copyright: © 2014 Karimi S. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Jazi, Marzie Jafarian
Khorasani, Elahe
The relationship between health literacy with health status and healthcare utilization in 18-64 years old people in Isfahan
title The relationship between health literacy with health status and healthcare utilization in 18-64 years old people in Isfahan
title_full The relationship between health literacy with health status and healthcare utilization in 18-64 years old people in Isfahan
title_fullStr The relationship between health literacy with health status and healthcare utilization in 18-64 years old people in Isfahan
title_full_unstemmed The relationship between health literacy with health status and healthcare utilization in 18-64 years old people in Isfahan
title_short The relationship between health literacy with health status and healthcare utilization in 18-64 years old people in Isfahan
title_sort relationship between health literacy with health status and healthcare utilization in 18-64 years old people in isfahan
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4113988/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25077168
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2277-9531.134910
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