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Health literacy and self-efficacy of the elderly with diabetes
Abdollah Goli Roshan1, Seyedeh Navabeh Hosseinkhani1, Reza Norouzadeh1
1Department of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahed University, Opposite Holy Shrine of Imam Khomeini,Khalij Fars Expresswa, 3319118651 P.O.Box 18155/159, Tehran, Iran.
Aim:
This study aimed to investigate the relationship between health literacy and self-efficacy in the elderly with diabetes.
Method:
This cross-sectional study was conducted on 375 diabetic elderly members from a diabetes association, in Iran. Self-efficacy and health literacy questionnaires were used. The Pearson test was used to determine the relationship between self-efficacy and health literacy and linear regression was used to predict self-efficacy by health literacy.
Results:
Elderly men and women with diabetes showed a significant difference in terms of health literacy (P = 0.003). People over the age of 70 had a lower level of literacy (P < 0.05). The highest and lowest self-efficacy in the elderly patients were related to taking medications (89.75 ± 17.56) and physical activity (71.38 ± 24.40), respectively. The results of stepwise linear regression showed that health literacy is a predictor of self-efficacy in the diabetic elderly (r2 = 0.55, P < 0.001).
Conclusion:
Health literacy is directly related to self-efficacy in older people with diabetes.
Supplementary Information:
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40200-023-01181-w.
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