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Health Literacy among Visitors of District Polyclinics in Almaty, Kazakhstan

BACKGROUND: This study aimed to evaluate health literacy levels of patients in Almaty City, Kazakhstan and to identify socio-demographics and socio-economic factors related to their health literacy. METHODS: An international survey instrument HLS-EU-Q developed by the European Health Literacy Consor...

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Autores principales: KAYUPOVA, Gaukhar, TURDALIYEVA, Botagoz, TULEBAYEV, Kazbek, Van DUONG, Tuyen, CHANG, Peter Wushou, ZAGULOVA, Diana
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5575385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28894707
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author KAYUPOVA, Gaukhar
TURDALIYEVA, Botagoz
TULEBAYEV, Kazbek
Van DUONG, Tuyen
CHANG, Peter Wushou
ZAGULOVA, Diana
author_facet KAYUPOVA, Gaukhar
TURDALIYEVA, Botagoz
TULEBAYEV, Kazbek
Van DUONG, Tuyen
CHANG, Peter Wushou
ZAGULOVA, Diana
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description BACKGROUND: This study aimed to evaluate health literacy levels of patients in Almaty City, Kazakhstan and to identify socio-demographics and socio-economic factors related to their health literacy. METHODS: An international survey instrument HLS-EU-Q developed by the European Health Literacy Consortium was used in a cross-sectional study with 1000 citizens in the Almaty City at the age of 18 and over who visited the out-patient departments in the polyclinics between Feb and Oct 2014. RESULTS: There were 552 women and 446 men completed the survey, with mean ages as (41.8 ± 13.9) and (44.7 ± 15.2) yr old respectively, and women were significantly younger than men (P<0.001). Their general health literacy was (34.0 ± 8.6) for men and (33.49 ± 9.4) for women, without significant difference. In them, 15.5% or 30.0% were with inadequate or problematic health literacy. Multivariate linear regression analysis showed that higher general health literacy was positively and significantly associated with high self-assessed social status (B=3.86, P<0.001), ability to pay for medications (B=3.42, P<0.001), low frequency of watching health related TV programs (B=2.37, P<0.001), moderate community involvement (B=2.23, P=0.03). CONCLUSION: Specific demographic and socio-economic determinants related to health literacy were identified the first time in Kazakhstan. This would facilitate programs to improve health outcomes in Kazakhstan.
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spelling pubmed-55753852017-09-11 Health Literacy among Visitors of District Polyclinics in Almaty, Kazakhstan KAYUPOVA, Gaukhar TURDALIYEVA, Botagoz TULEBAYEV, Kazbek Van DUONG, Tuyen CHANG, Peter Wushou ZAGULOVA, Diana Iran J Public Health Original Article BACKGROUND: This study aimed to evaluate health literacy levels of patients in Almaty City, Kazakhstan and to identify socio-demographics and socio-economic factors related to their health literacy. METHODS: An international survey instrument HLS-EU-Q developed by the European Health Literacy Consortium was used in a cross-sectional study with 1000 citizens in the Almaty City at the age of 18 and over who visited the out-patient departments in the polyclinics between Feb and Oct 2014. RESULTS: There were 552 women and 446 men completed the survey, with mean ages as (41.8 ± 13.9) and (44.7 ± 15.2) yr old respectively, and women were significantly younger than men (P<0.001). Their general health literacy was (34.0 ± 8.6) for men and (33.49 ± 9.4) for women, without significant difference. In them, 15.5% or 30.0% were with inadequate or problematic health literacy. Multivariate linear regression analysis showed that higher general health literacy was positively and significantly associated with high self-assessed social status (B=3.86, P<0.001), ability to pay for medications (B=3.42, P<0.001), low frequency of watching health related TV programs (B=2.37, P<0.001), moderate community involvement (B=2.23, P=0.03). CONCLUSION: Specific demographic and socio-economic determinants related to health literacy were identified the first time in Kazakhstan. This would facilitate programs to improve health outcomes in Kazakhstan. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2017-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5575385/ /pubmed/28894707 Text en Copyright© Iranian Public Health Association & Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/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 work is properly cited.
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CHANG, Peter Wushou
ZAGULOVA, Diana
Health Literacy among Visitors of District Polyclinics in Almaty, Kazakhstan
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5575385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28894707
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