Level of Health Literacy Among Type 2 Diabetic Persons and its Relation to Glycemic Control

Health literacy is the degree to which an individual can obtain, process, understand and communicate about health related information to make informed health decisions. Our aim was to study the influence of Diabetic health literacy in affecting the glycemic control in Diabetic patients. This is a Cross sectional Analytical study in 200 diabetic patients. Diabetic Knowledge Test developed by Michigan Diabetic Research and Training Center was modified after appropriate permission and was used to measure health literacy. HbA1C was used as a measure of glycemic control. In the study population, Median HbA1C was 9 gm% with Interquartile Range (IQR) of 6.10-11.80 in low health literacy group, 7.80 with an IQR of 5.95-9.32 in marginal health literacy group and 6.20 with an IQR of 5.38-7.90 in adequate health literacy group (P Value