Khadija El Aoufy, Maria Ramona Melis, Paolo Iovino, Stefano Bambi, Chiara Lorini, Guglielmo Bonaccorsi, Ilaria Galetti, Carla Garbagnati, Paola Canziani, Silvia Tonolo, Marco Mitola, Serena Guiducci, Daniel E Furst, Marco Matucci-Cerinic, Laura Rasero, Silvia Bellando-Randone
RATIONALE AND AIM: Health literacy (HL) is pivotal for the successful self-management of chronic diseases. Little HL information is currently available in SSc patients; therefore, the present study aims at evaluating the HL levels in an Italian cohort of SSc patients. METHODS: SSc patients were enrolled with the support of Italian patient associations, from September 2022 to March 2023. Health literacy characteristics were derived from the Health Literacy Scale European Questionnaire-16 (HLS-EU-Q16), consisting of 16 items designed on a four-point Likert scale ranging from "very difficult" to "very easy", and three HL levels were identified: inadequate HL (0-8 score); problematic HL (9-12 score); and sufficient HL (13-16 score)...
March 5, 2024: Nursing Reports