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https://doi.org/10.32592/hsr.2020.15.4.102
Copy DOIPublication Date: Jan 21, 2020 | |
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Background and Purpose: Diabetes mellitus is an important health problem that leads to severe complication and death, health literacy (HL) is capacity of individual to obtain process and understand basic health information and services needed to make proper health decision that leads to empowering in self-care behavior. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between health literacy and self-care in patient with typ2 diabetes. Material and Method: This study was a cross sectional study conducted in 2017 on 390 patients with type2 diabetes referred to Babol rural health center. Data were collected using health literacy for Iranian Adults (HELIA) and Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activities (SDSCA). Result: The result of study showed that mean average of HL was 48.56±16.31 and 55.9percent of patient had inadequate HL. The mean average of self-care in one week was 50.77±15.18. There was no significance association between HL and self-care behavior. HL was significant relation by sex, age, marriage, education, job, economic status and disease duration (p<0.05). Also there were significant relation between self-care behavior with number of family, education and disease duration. Conclusion: Considering that over 50% of patients have inadequate HL and demographic factor play an important role in HL and self-care behavior, it’s suggested that health care provider addressed this factor in order to designing appropriate program.
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