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Exploring the Importance of Health Literacy for the Quality of Life in Patients with Heart Failure
As with all other chronic noncommunicable diseases, adequate health literacy plays a key role in making the right decisions in the treatment of heart failure. Patients with heart failure and a lower health literacy have a reduced quality of life. A cross-sectional study among 200 patients with heart...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6121278/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30115831 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15081761 |
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author | Jovanić, Marija Zdravković, Marija Stanisavljević, Dejana Jović Vraneš, Aleksandra |
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description | As with all other chronic noncommunicable diseases, adequate health literacy plays a key role in making the right decisions in the treatment of heart failure. Patients with heart failure and a lower health literacy have a reduced quality of life. A cross-sectional study among 200 patients with heart failure was conducted at a state university hospital in Belgrade, Serbia. The European Health Literacy Questionnaire, HLS-EU-Q47, was used to assess health literacy. Quality of life was measured with the generic SF-36 and the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire. Descriptive and analytical statistical analysis was applied. More than half of the respondents (64%) had limited health literacy. The lowest mean health literacy index (28.01 ± 9.34) was within the disease prevention dimension, where the largest number of respondents showed limited health literacy (70%). Our patients had a poorer quality of life in the physical dimension, and the best scores were identified in the emotional role and social functioning. Health literacy was highly statistically significant and an independent predictor of quality of life (physical, mental, and total quality of life). Improving health literacy can lead to better decisions in the treatment of disease and quality of life in heart failure patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-61212782018-09-07 Exploring the Importance of Health Literacy for the Quality of Life in Patients with Heart Failure Jovanić, Marija Zdravković, Marija Stanisavljević, Dejana Jović Vraneš, Aleksandra Int J Environ Res Public Health Article As with all other chronic noncommunicable diseases, adequate health literacy plays a key role in making the right decisions in the treatment of heart failure. Patients with heart failure and a lower health literacy have a reduced quality of life. A cross-sectional study among 200 patients with heart failure was conducted at a state university hospital in Belgrade, Serbia. The European Health Literacy Questionnaire, HLS-EU-Q47, was used to assess health literacy. Quality of life was measured with the generic SF-36 and the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire. Descriptive and analytical statistical analysis was applied. More than half of the respondents (64%) had limited health literacy. The lowest mean health literacy index (28.01 ± 9.34) was within the disease prevention dimension, where the largest number of respondents showed limited health literacy (70%). Our patients had a poorer quality of life in the physical dimension, and the best scores were identified in the emotional role and social functioning. Health literacy was highly statistically significant and an independent predictor of quality of life (physical, mental, and total quality of life). Improving health literacy can lead to better decisions in the treatment of disease and quality of life in heart failure patients. MDPI 2018-08-16 2018-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6121278/ /pubmed/30115831 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15081761 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Jovanić, Marija Zdravković, Marija Stanisavljević, Dejana Jović Vraneš, Aleksandra Exploring the Importance of Health Literacy for the Quality of Life in Patients with Heart Failure |
title | Exploring the Importance of Health Literacy for the Quality of Life in Patients with Heart Failure |
title_full | Exploring the Importance of Health Literacy for the Quality of Life in Patients with Heart Failure |
title_fullStr | Exploring the Importance of Health Literacy for the Quality of Life in Patients with Heart Failure |
title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the Importance of Health Literacy for the Quality of Life in Patients with Heart Failure |
title_short | Exploring the Importance of Health Literacy for the Quality of Life in Patients with Heart Failure |
title_sort | exploring the importance of health literacy for the quality of life in patients with heart failure |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6121278/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30115831 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15081761 |
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