Catherine Hudon|Martin Fortin|Marie-Ève Poitras|José Almirall
The relationship between literacy and multimorbidity in a primary care setting
Université de Sherbrooke|Université de Sherbrooke|Centre de Santé et de Services Sociaux de Chicoutimi|Université de Sherbrooke
multimorbidity acknowledged research priority primary care identification risk factors people risk important step guiding prevention intervention strategies aim study examine relationship literacy multimorbidity controlling potential confounders participants adult patients attending family medicine clinic regional health centre saguenay quebec canada literacy measured newest vital sign nvs multimorbidity measured disease burden morbidity assessment dbma selfreport information potential confounders age sex education family income also collected association literacy independent variable multimorbidity examined bivariate multivariate analyses two operational definitions multimorbidity used successively dependent variable confounding variables introduced model potential predictors one hundred three patients 36 men 1983 years old recruited 418 completed 12 years school less fortyseven percent patients provided fewer four correct answers nvs possible low literacy whereas 53 four correct responses literacy multimorbidity associated bivariate analyses p 001 multivariate analyses including age family income study suggests relationship literacy multimorbidity controlling age family income