Farbod Ebadi Fard Azar|Morteza Mansourian|Arash Ziapour|Behzad Mahaki
Factors affecting the health literacy status of patients with type 2 diabetes through demographic variables: A cross-sectional study
Iran University of Medical Sciences|Iran University of Medical Sciences|Iran University of Medical Sciences|Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences
health literacy hl ability person acquire process understand necessary health information make health services needed conscious health decisions besides diabetes common metabolic disorder affects patients quantity quality life study focused determining factors affect hl status patients type 2 diabetes t2d role demographic variablesthis descriptiveanalytical research survey recruited sample based 280 patients t2d diabetes research center ayatollah taleghani hospital kermanshah 2020 study selected patients t2d using simple random sampling technique study applied demographic information questionnaire functional communicative critical hl scale collect data patients t2d study used spss version 23 received data sets perform statistical analysis including ttest analysis variance multiple regression predict factors affecting hl among diabetes patientsthe study results showed mean age participating patients t2d 5580 1304 results indicated mean score standard deviation total hl score patients t2d 270 044 findings specified statistically significant relationship hl gender education occupation income place residence results indicated coefficients multiple regression analysis income variable 0170 age 0176 employment variable 0157 predictive hl patients t2dthe results study specified hl rate individuals diabetes type 2 average potential communicative critical hl influence essential communication education diabetes patients primary healthcare system settings findings indicate communicative critical hl related patients management functional hl looks passable study