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Health literacy and its influencing factors in Iranian diabetic patients

Background: Health literacy is the ability to obtain, read, understand and use healthcare information to make appropriate health decisions and follow instructions for treatment. The aim of this study was to identify the effect of various factors on health literacy in patients with diabetes. Methods:...

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Autores principales: Mohammadi, Zahra, Tehrani Banihashemi, Arash, Asgharifard, Homa, Bahramian, Mehran, Baradaran, Hamid Reza, Khamseh, Mohammad E
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Publicado: Iran University of Medical Sciences 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4606944/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26478888
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author Mohammadi, Zahra
Tehrani Banihashemi, Arash
Asgharifard, Homa
Bahramian, Mehran
Baradaran, Hamid Reza
Khamseh, Mohammad E
author_facet Mohammadi, Zahra
Tehrani Banihashemi, Arash
Asgharifard, Homa
Bahramian, Mehran
Baradaran, Hamid Reza
Khamseh, Mohammad E
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description Background: Health literacy is the ability to obtain, read, understand and use healthcare information to make appropriate health decisions and follow instructions for treatment. The aim of this study was to identify the effect of various factors on health literacy in patients with diabetes. Methods: 407 patients with diabetes older than 15 years of age were identified from the Diabetes Clinic affiliated to the Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism (IEM) of Iran University of Medical Sciences. We assessed patients' health literacy using the Persian version of Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (TOFHLA) questionnaire. Results: Mean age of the patients was 55.8 ± 11.3 years, and 61.7% the participants were female.. Overall, 18.2% of the patients had adequate health literacy skills, 11.8% had marginal and 70.0% inadequate health literacy skills. Male participants performed better than females (p< 0.01) and older patients had lower health literacy score than younger patients (p< 0.001). Furthermore, patients with higher educational and occupational levels had higher functional health literacy score than those with lower levels (p< 0.001). Conclusion: Health literacy score in Iranian patients with diabetes seems inadequate. Therefrom effective interventions should be designed and implemented for this group of patients to improve diabetes outcomes.
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spelling pubmed-46069442015-10-16 Health literacy and its influencing factors in Iranian diabetic patients Mohammadi, Zahra Tehrani Banihashemi, Arash Asgharifard, Homa Bahramian, Mehran Baradaran, Hamid Reza Khamseh, Mohammad E Med J Islam Repub Iran Original Article Background: Health literacy is the ability to obtain, read, understand and use healthcare information to make appropriate health decisions and follow instructions for treatment. The aim of this study was to identify the effect of various factors on health literacy in patients with diabetes. Methods: 407 patients with diabetes older than 15 years of age were identified from the Diabetes Clinic affiliated to the Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism (IEM) of Iran University of Medical Sciences. We assessed patients' health literacy using the Persian version of Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (TOFHLA) questionnaire. Results: Mean age of the patients was 55.8 ± 11.3 years, and 61.7% the participants were female.. Overall, 18.2% of the patients had adequate health literacy skills, 11.8% had marginal and 70.0% inadequate health literacy skills. Male participants performed better than females (p< 0.01) and older patients had lower health literacy score than younger patients (p< 0.001). Furthermore, patients with higher educational and occupational levels had higher functional health literacy score than those with lower levels (p< 0.001). Conclusion: Health literacy score in Iranian patients with diabetes seems inadequate. Therefrom effective interventions should be designed and implemented for this group of patients to improve diabetes outcomes. Iran University of Medical Sciences 2015-07-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4606944/ /pubmed/26478888 Text en © 2015 Iran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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Asgharifard, Homa
Bahramian, Mehran
Baradaran, Hamid Reza
Khamseh, Mohammad E
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26478888
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