Health Literacy and Self-Management in Older Persons with Dyslipidemia
Keywords:
Health literacy, Self-management, Older persons, DyslipidemiaAbstract
Health literacy is a factor that helps many older persons with dyslipidemia manage themselves more effectively. This descriptive study aimed to investigate health literacy, self-management, and the relationship between health literacy and self-management among older persons with dyslipidemia. The 82 participants were older persons with dyslipidemia who visited Lanna hospitals in Chiang Mai province, selected using simple random sampling. The research instruments included a demographic and illness data recording form, and health literacy and self-management questionnaires for older persons with dyslipidemia, which demonstrated reliability via Cronbach’s alpha coefficients of .92 and .98., respectively. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Pearson’s product-moment correlation.
The results showed that the older persons with dyslipidemia in this study had high levels of health literacy and self-management, and health literacy was statistically positively correlated with self-management at a high level (r = .746, p < .001)
The results of this study can be used as database information for health care professionals who take care of older persons with dyslipidemia in order to support self-management through enhancing health literacy.
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