Monique Heijmans|Geeke Waverijn|Jany Rademakers|Rosalie van der Vaart|Mieke Rijken
Functional, communicative and critical health literacy of chronic disease patients and their importance for self-management
Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research|Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research|Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research|University of Twente|Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research
provide insight level health literacy among chronic disease patients netherlands identify subgroups low literacy examine associations health literacy selfmanagement selfreport questionnaires sent nationwide sample 1341 chronic disease patients dutch functional communicative critical health literacy scale fcchl partners health scale pih perceived efficacy patientdoctor interactions peppi5 used assess health literacy aspects selfmanagement general health literacy skills good higher age lower education lower income multimorbidity andor functional limitations associated lower levels health literacy communicative critical health literacy related aspects selfmanagement functional health literacy less important communicative critical health literacy play role successful selfmanagement chronic disease impact differs context health literacy levels vary according sociodemographic disease characteristics patients health care professionals tailor information support health literacy skills personal context patients