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KMID : 1155220190440030237
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Journal of the Korean Society of Health Information and Health Statistics
2019 Volume.44 No. 3 p.237 ~ p.244
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Impact of Health Literacy on Hypertension Control of Elderly Women Patients Receiving Home Visiting Health Care Services
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Bae Hwa
Hong Nam-Soo
Shin Eun-Kyoung
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Abstract
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Objectives: This study was to investigate the level of health literacy among the elderly hypertensive patients and to investigate the effect of health literacy on hypertension control.
Methods: This study was conducted for four weeks between February 5 and March 2nd, 2018 in cooperation with the health center of D county. The subjects of the study were 150 elderly female hypertension patients who were regularly supervised by the visiting health care project, and the material of 146 patients amon them were used for the analysis. Collected data were analyzed using t-test, ANOVA and logistic regression analyses with the SPSS 23.0 Program.
Results: The literacy rate of health information was 8.70 (± 2.12) out of 12 points, and the correct answer rate was 74.5%. The higher the age and the higher the level of education and the higher the salt-based practice rate, the higher the health literacy.
Conclusions: Health literacy level and hypertension control are closely related. Since the people with low literacy for health information do not understand various kinds of health related information, it is highly likely that their knowledge and self-management level is insufficient.
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KEYWORD
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Health literacy, Hypertension, Home visiting health care services
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