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KMID : 0379220100300020485
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Journal of Korea Gerontological Society
2010 Volume.30 No. 2 p.485 ~ p.497
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A Study on Health Literacy, Medication Knowledge, and Medication Misuse of Rural Elderly
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Lee Sun-A
Park Myong-Hwa
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Abstract
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This study was done to explore rural elderly’s health literacy, medication knowledge, and medication misuse. A self administered questionnaire was used and 103 rural elders were participated. Data collection was performed from 8th to 24th September, 2009. The statistical analysis such as frequency, percentage, average, standard deviation, χ²-test, and Pearson correlation using SPSS WIN 15.0 program was performed. About 47% of the respondents had linguistic health literacy level below sixth grade elementary school. The mean score of functional health literacy, was 1.09(±0.99). There were significant differences between health literacy and general and health characteristics such as gender(p=.014), education degree(p=.003), marital status(p=.039), and learning source of taking medicine(p=.045). The mean scores of medication knowledge and medication misuse were 10.69(±5.03) and 6.36(±2.93) respectively. Medication knowledge had significant positive correlations with the linguistic health literacy(r=.255, p=.009) and functional health literacy(r=.301,
p=.002). Medication misuse had negative correlations with the linguistic health literacy(r=-.170, p=.086) and the functional health literacy(r=-.180, p=.069). In conclusion, health literacy of rural elderly was relatively low and the individuals with higher health literacy had higher medication knowledge and lower medication misuse. The results of this study could be used as fundamental data to develop medication education materials which is based on the health literacy of rural elderly.
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KEYWORD
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Health Literacy, Medication, Knowledge, Misuse, Elderly
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