Associations of health literacy with risk factors for diabetic foot disease: a cross-sectional analysis of the Southern Tasmanian Health Literacy and Foot Ulcer Development in Diabetes Mellitus Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Poor health literacy (HL) is associated with poorer health outcomes in diabetes but little is known about its effects on foot disease. This study was aimed to determine the associations between HL and diabetic foot disease.

Design

This is a cross-sectional analysis of baseline data from a prospective study of foot disease.

Setting

Attendees of the Royal Hobart Hospital's Diabetes outpatient clinics.

Participants

222 people with type 1 or type 2 diabetes aged >40 years and without a history of foot disease, psychotic disorders or dementia.

Measures

Outcomes were peripheral neuropathy, peripheral arterial disease and foot deformity according to published guidelines. The exposure, HL, was measured using the short form Test of Functional Health Li

SUBMITTER: Chen P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6677956 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature