Health literacy of rheumatology patients in three clinics in Australia and its association with sociodemographic and clinical characteristics.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe and compare health literacy (HL) using contrasting instruments of Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM) and the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ) in patients attending three Australian rheumatology clinics and their associations with sociodemographic and clinical characteristics.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional study of rheumatology patients at Liverpool (Sydney) and Canberra public hospital clinics and a private Liverpool clinic using the REALM test and HLQ sociodemographic and clinical questionnaires. One-way analysis of variance and multivariate ordinal and binary logistic regressions were used to examine the association between HL and sociodemographic and clinical factors.

Results

A total of 278 people participated (1

SUBMITTER: Tsai TY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11512108 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature