The association between Electronic Health Literacy and Self-care Management in Adults with Type-2 Diabetes

Purpose: E-health illiteracy has disadvantages including misevaluation of medical information displayed on the internet. Both effective self care management and e-health literacy are important terms in order to control of the chronic diseases. The aim of this study is to determine the relationship b...

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Published in:Progress in health sciences 2022-12, Vol.12 (2), p.14-19
Main Authors: Altas, Z.M, Hidiroglu, S, Solmaz, C, El Qadiri, I.M, Bolhassani, L, Yalcin, H.D, Bozan, F, Rasheed, E, Kesen, C.H, Sahin, M
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Language:English
Subjects:
Adults
Analysis
Care and treatment
Chronic diseases
Diabetes therapy
Health aspects
Medical advice systems
Medical informatics
Medical research
Medicine, Experimental
Self-care, Health
Type 2 diabetes
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Summary:Purpose: E-health illiteracy has disadvantages including misevaluation of medical information displayed on the internet. Both effective self care management and e-health literacy are important terms in order to control of the chronic diseases. The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between e-health literacy and the self-care management of patients with Type-2 diabetes. Materials and Methods: The type of the study is descriptive. A questionnaire was applied to individuals who have been diagnosed with Type-2 diabetes in the endocrine policlinic of the internal medicine clinic of a tertiary state hospital in Istanbul, Turkey. The sample size was calculated as 384 by accepting the adequate e-health literacy rate among Type-2 diabetes patients as 50%, the margin of error 5%, and the confidence level as 95%. In addition to sociodemographical questions; our questionnaire contains two scales: Self-Care Management Protection scale and the E-health Literacy Scale. Number (n) and percentage (%) values were used in the expression of descriptive data. Mean, standard deviation, median and minimum, maximum values were given. For data comparison; Mann-Whitney U test was used for non-normally distributed variables. The Spearman correlation used to measure the linear relation between two numeric variables. Significance level has been accepted as p
ISSN:2083-1617
DOI:10.5604/01.3001.0016.1734