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http://dx.doi.org/10.22156/CS4SMB.2021.11.01.062

Relationship between Health Literacy and Health status among Community-dwelling Elderly  

Yang, In-Suk (Department of Nursing, Kyungil University)
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Journal of Convergence for Information Technology / v.11, no.1, 2021 , pp. 62-70 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to identify health literacy among elderly and to investigate the relationships between healthy literacy and health status. A cross-sectional study was conducted with a sample of 158 participants between July and December 2019. The linguistic and functional health literacy (using the KHLAT and NVS) and self-rated physical and mental health were assessed. Above third of elderly have difficulties reading and understanding linguistic and functional health literacy. There were significant differences in health literacy according to residence, spouse, living together, educational level, occupation, monthly income, and number of diagnosed disease. Linguistic and functional health literacy and self-rated physical and mental health are closely related. Sociodemographic and disease related factors such as residence, educational level, monthly income, and multi-morbidity need to be considered when developing educational programs to improve health literacy. It could be possible to promote health status by improving the health literacy through individualized convergent educational program.
Keywords
Linguistic health literacy; Functional health literacy; Self-rated physical health; Self-rated mental health; Elderly;
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