Pharmacotherapy literacy level and predictors of low literacy among diabetes mellitus type 2 patients in Serbia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pharmacotherapy literacy (PTHL) is a specific ability to safely access, appraise and understand the available information concerning medication and to calculate and act accordingly. The concept of PTHL is mostly unknown for the majority of diabetes mellitus type 2 (DMT2) patients in Serbia. With diabetes being one of the major public health problems in Serbia with a prevalence of 9.1%, this two-study research aims at constructing performance-based instrument and estimating the prevalence of PTHL levels and identification of predictors of low PTHL scores in patients with DMT2.

Methods

Multistage study was performed to adapt the existing performance-based instrument (PTHL-SR) into specific questionnaire for DMT2 population (PTHL-DM instrument). PTHL levels were asse

SUBMITTER: Levic M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10507974 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature