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Level of Patient Health Literacy and Associated Factors Among Adult Admitted Patients at Public Hospitals of West Shoa Oromia, Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Health literacy is a capacity of individual to gain knowledge that helps to use health information in different levels as needed for self-management and to communicate with health providers. Health literacy has a significant impact on patient health outcomes. The aim of this study was to...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8977217/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35387256 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PPA.S357741 |
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description | BACKGROUND: Health literacy is a capacity of individual to gain knowledge that helps to use health information in different levels as needed for self-management and to communicate with health providers. Health literacy has a significant impact on patient health outcomes. The aim of this study was to assess level of patient health literacy and associated factors among adult admitted patients at public hospitals of West Shoa zone, Oromia, Ethiopia. METHODS: A cross-sectional, quantitative study was carried out among adult admitted patients at public hospitals of West Shoa Oromia, Ethiopia. An interviewer-administered Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ) instrument tool was used to assess patients’ health literacy. All statistical analysis were performed using SPSS for windows program version 21. RESULTS: A total of 403 patients participated in this study. Majority of the participants were males 235 (58.3%) and aged 40–59 years (n = 164, 40.7%). Overall, 59.1% (n = 238) of the participants have high health literacy. Those respondents who are above grade 12 (tertiary) were 2.45 times more likely to have high health literacy (AOR = 2.45, 95% CI: 1.21, 4.98) compared to those respondents not able to read and write . Participants who had age greater or equal to sixty were 65% less likely to have high health literacy (AOR: 0.35, 95% CI: 0.18, 0.70). CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION: Forty percent of the participants have low health literacy. Age and education are significant factors in health literacy. Ethiopian ministry of health, Oromia regional health bureau, West shoa zonal office and healthcare professionals have to provide an intervention in enhancing the level of health literacy by mass media and written material. |
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spelling | pubmed-89772172022-04-05 Level of Patient Health Literacy and Associated Factors Among Adult Admitted Patients at Public Hospitals of West Shoa Oromia, Ethiopia Gurmu Dugasa, Yonas Patient Prefer Adherence Original Research BACKGROUND: Health literacy is a capacity of individual to gain knowledge that helps to use health information in different levels as needed for self-management and to communicate with health providers. Health literacy has a significant impact on patient health outcomes. The aim of this study was to assess level of patient health literacy and associated factors among adult admitted patients at public hospitals of West Shoa zone, Oromia, Ethiopia. METHODS: A cross-sectional, quantitative study was carried out among adult admitted patients at public hospitals of West Shoa Oromia, Ethiopia. An interviewer-administered Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ) instrument tool was used to assess patients’ health literacy. All statistical analysis were performed using SPSS for windows program version 21. RESULTS: A total of 403 patients participated in this study. Majority of the participants were males 235 (58.3%) and aged 40–59 years (n = 164, 40.7%). Overall, 59.1% (n = 238) of the participants have high health literacy. Those respondents who are above grade 12 (tertiary) were 2.45 times more likely to have high health literacy (AOR = 2.45, 95% CI: 1.21, 4.98) compared to those respondents not able to read and write . Participants who had age greater or equal to sixty were 65% less likely to have high health literacy (AOR: 0.35, 95% CI: 0.18, 0.70). CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION: Forty percent of the participants have low health literacy. Age and education are significant factors in health literacy. Ethiopian ministry of health, Oromia regional health bureau, West shoa zonal office and healthcare professionals have to provide an intervention in enhancing the level of health literacy by mass media and written material. Dove 2022-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8977217/ /pubmed/35387256 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PPA.S357741 Text en © 2022 Gurmu Dugasa. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) ). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php). |
spellingShingle | Original Research Gurmu Dugasa, Yonas Level of Patient Health Literacy and Associated Factors Among Adult Admitted Patients at Public Hospitals of West Shoa Oromia, Ethiopia |
title | Level of Patient Health Literacy and Associated Factors Among Adult Admitted Patients at Public Hospitals of West Shoa Oromia, Ethiopia |
title_full | Level of Patient Health Literacy and Associated Factors Among Adult Admitted Patients at Public Hospitals of West Shoa Oromia, Ethiopia |
title_fullStr | Level of Patient Health Literacy and Associated Factors Among Adult Admitted Patients at Public Hospitals of West Shoa Oromia, Ethiopia |
title_full_unstemmed | Level of Patient Health Literacy and Associated Factors Among Adult Admitted Patients at Public Hospitals of West Shoa Oromia, Ethiopia |
title_short | Level of Patient Health Literacy and Associated Factors Among Adult Admitted Patients at Public Hospitals of West Shoa Oromia, Ethiopia |
title_sort | level of patient health literacy and associated factors among adult admitted patients at public hospitals of west shoa oromia, ethiopia |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8977217/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35387256 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PPA.S357741 |
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