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Low Health Literacy Is Associated with Poorer Physical and Mental Health-Related Quality of Life in Dialysed Patients

Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is an important health indicator in chronic diseases like kidney diseases. Health literacy (HL) may strongly affect HRQoL, but evidence is scarce. Therefore, we assessed the associations of HL with HRQoL in dialysed patients. We performed a cross-sectional stud...

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Autores principales: Skoumalova, Ivana, Madarasova Geckova, Andrea, Rosenberger, Jaroslav, Majernikova, Maria, Kolarcik, Peter, Klein, Daniel, de Winter, Andrea F., van Dijk, Jitse P., Reijneveld, Sijmen A.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9602746/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36293839
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013265
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author Skoumalova, Ivana
Madarasova Geckova, Andrea
Rosenberger, Jaroslav
Majernikova, Maria
Kolarcik, Peter
Klein, Daniel
de Winter, Andrea F.
van Dijk, Jitse P.
Reijneveld, Sijmen A.
author_facet Skoumalova, Ivana
Madarasova Geckova, Andrea
Rosenberger, Jaroslav
Majernikova, Maria
Kolarcik, Peter
Klein, Daniel
de Winter, Andrea F.
van Dijk, Jitse P.
Reijneveld, Sijmen A.
author_sort Skoumalova, Ivana
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description Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is an important health indicator in chronic diseases like kidney diseases. Health literacy (HL) may strongly affect HRQoL, but evidence is scarce. Therefore, we assessed the associations of HL with HRQoL in dialysed patients. We performed a cross-sectional study in 20 dialysis clinics across Slovakia (n = 542 patients, mean age = 63.6 years, males = 60.7%). We assessed the association of categorised HL (low, moderate, high) with the SF36 physical component score (PCS) and mental component score (MCS) using generalised linear models adjusted for age, gender, education, and comorbidity (Charlson Comorbidity Index, CCI). We found significant associations of HL with PCS and MCS in dialysed patients, adjusted for age, gender, education, and CCI. Low-HL patients had a lower PCS (B = −3.27, 95%-confidence interval, CI: −5.76/−0.79) and MCS (B = −6.05, 95%-CI: −8.82/−3.29) than high-HL patients. Moderate-HL patients had a lower MCS (B = −4.26, 95%-CI: −6.83/−1.69) than high-HL patients. HL is associated with physical and mental HRQoL; this indicates that dialysed patients with lower HL deserve specific attention and tailored care to have their HRQoL increased.
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spelling pubmed-96027462022-10-27 Low Health Literacy Is Associated with Poorer Physical and Mental Health-Related Quality of Life in Dialysed Patients Skoumalova, Ivana Madarasova Geckova, Andrea Rosenberger, Jaroslav Majernikova, Maria Kolarcik, Peter Klein, Daniel de Winter, Andrea F. van Dijk, Jitse P. Reijneveld, Sijmen A. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is an important health indicator in chronic diseases like kidney diseases. Health literacy (HL) may strongly affect HRQoL, but evidence is scarce. Therefore, we assessed the associations of HL with HRQoL in dialysed patients. We performed a cross-sectional study in 20 dialysis clinics across Slovakia (n = 542 patients, mean age = 63.6 years, males = 60.7%). We assessed the association of categorised HL (low, moderate, high) with the SF36 physical component score (PCS) and mental component score (MCS) using generalised linear models adjusted for age, gender, education, and comorbidity (Charlson Comorbidity Index, CCI). We found significant associations of HL with PCS and MCS in dialysed patients, adjusted for age, gender, education, and CCI. Low-HL patients had a lower PCS (B = −3.27, 95%-confidence interval, CI: −5.76/−0.79) and MCS (B = −6.05, 95%-CI: −8.82/−3.29) than high-HL patients. Moderate-HL patients had a lower MCS (B = −4.26, 95%-CI: −6.83/−1.69) than high-HL patients. HL is associated with physical and mental HRQoL; this indicates that dialysed patients with lower HL deserve specific attention and tailored care to have their HRQoL increased. MDPI 2022-10-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9602746/ /pubmed/36293839 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013265 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Skoumalova, Ivana
Madarasova Geckova, Andrea
Rosenberger, Jaroslav
Majernikova, Maria
Kolarcik, Peter
Klein, Daniel
de Winter, Andrea F.
van Dijk, Jitse P.
Reijneveld, Sijmen A.
Low Health Literacy Is Associated with Poorer Physical and Mental Health-Related Quality of Life in Dialysed Patients
title Low Health Literacy Is Associated with Poorer Physical and Mental Health-Related Quality of Life in Dialysed Patients
title_full Low Health Literacy Is Associated with Poorer Physical and Mental Health-Related Quality of Life in Dialysed Patients
title_fullStr Low Health Literacy Is Associated with Poorer Physical and Mental Health-Related Quality of Life in Dialysed Patients
title_full_unstemmed Low Health Literacy Is Associated with Poorer Physical and Mental Health-Related Quality of Life in Dialysed Patients
title_short Low Health Literacy Is Associated with Poorer Physical and Mental Health-Related Quality of Life in Dialysed Patients
title_sort low health literacy is associated with poorer physical and mental health-related quality of life in dialysed patients
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9602746/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36293839
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013265
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