The association between Electronic Health Literacy and Self-care Management in Adults with Type-2 Diabetes
Health literacy is a term defined as the cognitive and social abilities that affect the personal skills to use and understand information in order to support and maintain good health status which is important for public health [5]. Insufficient health literacy causes individuals to lack information...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Progress in health sciences 2022-07, Vol.12 (2), p.1-7 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Health literacy is a term defined as the cognitive and social abilities that affect the personal skills to use and understand information in order to support and maintain good health status which is important for public health [5]. Insufficient health literacy causes individuals to lack information about health services, not to understand medical information and their poor health status, to use preventive health services less, which causes tend to treatment-based services more, to increase health demand with unnecessary hospital admissions, to experience communication problems with health professionals. The American Diabetes Association states that individuals with diabetes should be educated for some behaviors supporting self-management like healthy eating, physical activity, monitoring of blood glucose, taking of medications, monitoring for complications [17,18]. All these behaviors have positive effects on the glycemic control of patients, quality of life and reduction of disease complications [19]. |
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ISSN: | 2083-1617 2083-6260 |