Danielle M Muscat|Wenbo Song|Erin Cvejic|Jie Hua Cecilia Ting|Joanne Medlin|Don Nutbeam
The Impact of the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program on Health Literacy: A Pre-Post Study Using a Multi-Dimensional Health Literacy Instrument
University of Sydney|University of Sydney|University of Sydney|University of Sydney|Sydney Local Health District|University of Sydney
study assessed impact chronic disease selfmanagement program cdsmp different domains health literacy using prepost study design participants aged 16 years one selfreported chronic diseases recruited cdsmp western sydney highly diverse area new south wales australia october 2014 september 2018 health literacy assessed pre immediately postintervention using health literacy questionnaire hlq differences mean scores hlq domain analysed using paired sample ttests total 486 participants recruited cdsmp 316 650 completed pre postintervention surveys included analysis median age participants 68 years majority female 625 born country australia 806 statistically significant p lt 0001 improvements across nine domains hlq first study evaluating potential impact cdsmp improving different domains health literacy amongst diverse sample participants chronic diseases using multidimensional instrument absence control population study warrants caution interpreting results