BACKGROUND Whether health literacy is independently associated with processes or outcomes of diabetes-related care is controversial. We tried to demonstrate the interaction of health literacy and understanding of health education and instructions in achieving glycemic control. METHODS Five hundred and one consecutive patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) in the outpatient clinic of the ...

Results: A total of 2016 study subjects completed the questionnaire (response rate 93.7%) with the mean age of 34.2 ± 12.8 years. The overall health literacy was 10.2 ± 4.2 and around 51% of the subjects reported marginal health literacy, while only 0.3% of inadequate health literacy was noticed among males aged 55+ years possessing university education. The overall health literacy and its doma...

A t a Morbidity and Mortality conference recently (M&M), I was presented with a patient who was rapidly decompensating in the intensive care unit, and a decision had to be made regarding CPR, including intubation. During the hospitalization just a few hours before this, the patient had been presented with this information and elected to undergo CPR, but not to undergo intubation. During the cou...

Research questions: What are the current conceptualizations of health literacy, and what strategies are Canadian health librarians in public, academic, and hospital libraries enacting to put health literacy promotion into practice? Data sources: Serving as the basis of this scoping review, library and information science, health sciences, and interdisciplinary databases were searched using key ...

The impact of parental health literacy and the health outcomes of young children is a poorly studied area. DeWalt et al., summarized the pertinent literature regarding literacy and child outcomes, not necessarily health literacy, from 1980 through 2008 [1]. They presented 24 studies that dealt with the relationship between literacy and child health outcomes and found that lower literacy was ass...

BACKGROUND Health literacy concerns the capacities of people to meet the complex demands of health in modern society. In spite of the growing attention for the concept among European health policymakers, researchers and practitioners, information about the status of health literacy in Europe remains scarce. This article presents selected findings from the first European comparative survey on he...

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify associations of internal motivation, perceived health competency, and health literacy with primary and secondary cancer prevention. Methods: A telephone survey was conducted with a sample of 2,700, 30-69 year olds, proportionally extracted from Gangwon Province, South Korea. The dependent variables were actions in primary and secondary prevention...