Open Access<p>The Relationship Between Health Literacy Level and Self-Care Behaviors in Patients with Diabetes</p>
Author(s) -
Davood RobatSarpooshi,
Mehrsadat Mahdizadeh,
Hadi Alizadeh Siuki,
Mohammad Haddadi,
Hamid Robatsarpooshi,
Nooshin Peyman
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
patient related outcome measures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1179-271X
DOI - 10.2147/prom.s243678
Subject(s) - medicine , health literacy , literacy , diabetes mellitus , health care , family medicine , analysis of variance , gerontology , test (biology) , self care , psychology , paleontology , pedagogy , endocrinology , economics , biology , economic growth
The most important factor in controlling diabetes is self-care behaviors; improving self-care behaviors is the first step in helping patients to better control and manage their diseases and health literacy is recognized as a vital and important indicator of outcomes and costs in healthcare. Therefore, the effectiveness of health-care systems requires that people have the desirable health literacy level. Therefore, this research intended to study the relationship between health literacy levels in patients with diabetes and their self-care behaviors.