Yangli Chen|Xue Ran|Yalan Chen|Kui Jiang
Effects of Health Literacy Intervention on Health Literacy Level and Glucolipid Metabolism of Diabetic Patients in Mainland China: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Nantong University|Nantong University|Nantong University|Nantong University
systematically evaluate effects health literacy intervention health literacy level glycolipid metabolism people diabetes mainland chinaa systematic review journal articles discussing diabetes health literacy performed searching pubmed embase science citation index expanded scie database web science china national knowledge infrastructure cnki database chinese scientific technical journals database cqvip wanfang database cochrane effective practice organization care review group epoc standards applied quality assessment metaanalysis performed using stata 120 softwarea total 44 articles including seven controlled beforeandafter trials cbas 27 randomized controlled trials rcts 10 nonrandomized controlled trials nonrcts included results showed 1 health literacy level intervention group improved compared preintervention control group 2 fasting plasma glucose fpg standardized mean difference smd 185 95 ci 228 142 2hour plasma glucose 2hpg smd 218 95 ci 268 168 hba1c weighted mean difference wmd 121 95 ci 148 094 significantly reduced intervention group 3 total cholesterol tc wmd 043 95 ci 064 023 significantly reduced intervention group although statistically significant differences triglycerides tg wmd 034 95 ci 073 005 lowdensity lipoprotein cholesterol ldlc wmd 020 95 ci 046 007 highdensity lipoprotein cholesterol hdlc wmd 006 95 ci 029 017intervention based health literacy effectively improve health literacy levels reduce glucose metabolism tc level among people diabetes mellitus although significant effect tg ldlc hdlc