THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN HEALTH LITERACY AND HEALTH CARE BEHAVIORS AMONG TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS PATIENTS, KHAMCHA-I DiSTRICT, MUKDAHAN PROVINCE
Keywords:
health literacy, type 2 diabetes mellitus, health care behaviorsAbstract
This cross-sectional study aims to determine the association between health literacy and health care behaviors among type 2 diabetes mellitus patients. A simple random sampling was conducted to obtain 119 type 2 diabetes mellitus patients registered in the chronic disease clinic in Khamcha-i hospital. Data was collected by the interview questionnaire of health literacy for type 2 diabetes mellitus patients. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics, the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient. The results revealed that 71.43% of participants were female and 58.82% had over the age of 60. 79.83% of participants were married, 68.91% had received primary school education, 73.11% were farmers and 37.82% had a diabetes duration of 1-5 years. 66.39% of diabetic patients had a middle level of health literacy, and 77.31% had a middle level of health care behaviors. The level of health literacy related to health care behaviors with statistical significance at p-value 0.01.
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