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KMID : 0858820160330060047
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Journal of Korean Society for Health Education and Promotion
2016 Volume.33 No. 6 p.47 ~ p.57
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A study on the measuring health literacy in patients with diabetes in Korea
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Kang Soo-Jin
Shim Kang-Hee
Chang Soo-Jung
Lee Mi-Sook
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Abstract
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Objectives: To develop and evaluate the applicability of a health literacy instrument in patients with diabetes by measuring their ability to understand diabetes-related words.
Methods: Diabetes-related words were extracted from the Korean Diabetes Association's website and literature reviews. In the first phase, three nursing researchers evaluated 2,661 diabetes-related words based on graded lexical vocabularies and what patients need to know about self-care, and the narrowed them to 255 words. In the second phase, a content validity assessment was conducted by an expert panel. In the third phase, the remaining 25 words were administered to 200 conscientious with type 2 patients aged 40 years old and using a Gallup survey from March 3 to 17, 2016 in Seoul, Korea. Descriptive analysis and Rasch analysis were performed to test psychometric properties.
Results: The mean score was 21.47 with a range of 0 to 25. The Cronbach's α was .92. The health literacy instrument using diabetes-related words had a ceiling effect response.
Conclusions: Diabetes-related words are useful and reliable items for testing the health literacy of diabetes patients. Future study is needed to develop and validate health literacy measures for diabetic patients.
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KEYWORD
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diabetes, health literacy, health literacy instrument
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