Paola Bozzatello, Cecilia Blua, Claudio Brasso, Paola Rocca, Silvio Bellino
The Role of Cognitive Deficits in Borderline Personality Disorder with Early Traumas: A Mediation Analysis
Journal of clinical medicine
low health literacy global challenge health literacy positively correlated chronic airways disease desirable outcomes despite importance health literacy disease management current health literacy measurement tools suboptimal part multistage project develop performancebased diseasespecific vancouver airways health literacy tool vahlt individuals chronic airways disease study assessed relationships vahlt scores characteristics patients chronic airways disease primary aim study provide preliminary evidence construct validity vahlt crosssectional study design applied study subjects recruited 6 specialty care clinics complete vahlt measurement tool demographic clinical data including quality life disease control collected via validated questionnaires study subjects also completed spirometry test inferential analysis conducted using mean difference testing correlational methods total 320 subjects recruited imputing missing data 315 ultimately analyzed subjects predominantly women 61 white 83 posthighschool education 74 mean sd age 652 132 age significantly negatively correlated vahlt scores p 004 subjects posthigh school education significantly higher vahlt scores high school education less p 001 significant sex ethnicity related differences vahlt scores observed clinical outcomes significant differences found vahlt scores disease severity measures quality life asthma control report chronic airways diseasespecific health literacy measurement tool developed involvement patients professionals age education highly correlated health literacy emphasizes importance addressing factors health literacy interventions among patients chronic airways disease