Kye Hwa Lee, Myung-Gwan Kim, Jae-Ho Lee, Jisan Lee, Insook Cho, Mona Choi, Hyun Wook Han, Myonghwa Park
Empowering Healthcare through Comprehensive Informatics Education: The Status and Future of Biomedical and Health Informatics Education
Healthcare informatics research
health literacy set different skills including reading listening analyzing deciding applying skills related health status epidermolysis bullosa eb rare hereditary genetic disease affects several aspects life patients families aim study assess health literacy patients eb iran thirtythree patients iran eb aged 15 yearsold enrolled study iranian health literacy questionnaire measures health literacy five domains including reading access perception assessment decisionmaking skills used collecting data spss analytical software version 22 used statistical analysis total 19 576 patients male 14 424 female age range 1541 years nineteen 576 patients inadequate health literacy reading skills onethird patients enough health literacy realm access twothirds excellent perception overall significant correlation level health literacy age p 092 sex p 055 race p 058 educational level p 051 patients majority patients inadequate health literacy reading skills patients acceptable health literacy perception assessment decisionmaking skills improvement health literacy patients priority health policy makers aim increasing quality life decreasing personal social problems