Health Literacy in Glomerulonephritis and Renal Vasculitis Attending Nephrology Clinics.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Glomerulonephritis is one of the leading causes of progressive chronic kidney disease worldwide and treatment requires shared decision-making to improve self-care and plan immunosuppressant therapy. However, information on health literacy (HL) in patients with glomerulonephritis is scanty. We aimed to assess HL in our multiethnic population with glomerulonephritis.

Methods

Single-center cross-sectional study of patients with glomerulonephritis receiving induction immunosuppressants at the ambulatory nephrology clinic and who completed the anonymized self-administered HLS-EU-47 questionnaire. The standardized HL index and domain item mean scores were compared with participant sociodemographic characteristics.

Results

Among 65 patients who attend the clinics over a

SUBMITTER: Lim CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9677738 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature