Assessing Patients' Critical Health Literacy and Identifying Associated Factors: Cross-sectional Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous studies have revealed that functional health literacy plays a less important role than communicative and critical health literacy (CRHL) and that communicative literacy and CRHL contribute more to better patient self-management. Although improving health literacy has been identified as an approach to fostering community involvement and empowerment, CRHL may be regarded as the neglected domain of health literacy, rarely achieving any focus or interventions that claim to be working toward this outcome. Considering this research background, close scholarly attention needs to be paid to CRHL and its associated factors.

Objective

This study aimed to assess CRHL and identify essential factors closely associated with the status of CRHL among Chinese patients and

SUBMITTER: Shan Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10132028 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature