Ankaa Nath, Sallen Aoghiz, Chinwendu Nnagbo, Steven Powell, Eunjoo P Choi, Udochukwu Oyoyo, Heidi Christensen, John Won, So Ran Kwon
The Outcome of a New Teledentistry Initiative in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-sectional Study
The journal of contemporary dental practice
last decade health literacy become vibrant area research objective evaluate health literacy association sociodemographic variables selfperception health presence chronic conditions primary healthcare patients crosssectional study among 120 patients conducted two primary healthcare centers test functional health literacy adults 50item reading comprehension 17item numerical ability test score 0100 administered chisquare test logistic regression analyses applied inadequate marginal health literacy existed 43 participants 410 adequate health literacy present 62 participants 590 functional health literacy significantly different location gender age marital status employment education material status selfperception health presence chronic conditions based multivariate analysis health literacy significantly associated participants age odds ratio 486 95 confidence interval ci 241980 p 0000 level education 448 95 ci 1731157 p 0002 chronic conditions 190 95 ci 116311 p 0010 results provide evidence limitations functional health literacy widespread among primary healthcare patients encourage efforts monitoring low health literacy may impair patients understanding health messages limit ability attend medical problems