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- Title
KNOWLEDGE ABOUT DIABETES AND HEALTH LITERACY: ANALYSIS BY ITEM RESPONSE THEORY.
- Authors
Paes, Robson Giovani; de Fátima Mantovani, Maria; Boller, Christian; Cossetin Costa, Marta; Piccinin Paz, Vanêssa; Conque Spinelli, Silvia Moro
- Abstract
Objective: to analyze the latent traits of knowledge about diabetes and health literacy of adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Method: an exploratory, descriptive, cross-sectional, and quantitative study was conducted with 33 participants from the Metropolitan Region of Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. Data were collected in the first quarter of 2020 using a sociodemographic and clinical questionnaire, the Spoken Knowledge in Low Literacy Patients with Diabetes questionnaire, and the Eight-Item Health Literacy Assessment Tool. Data were analyzed descriptively, using Item Response Theory, Cronbach's alpha, and Pearson's Correlation Coefficient. Results: there was a female predominance (n = 23), with a mean age of 57.0 ± 8.08 years, education of 7.72± 3.69 years, and family income of 3,118.18 ± 3,063.28. The latent trait with the greatest difficulty in understanding diabetes was related to the signs and symptoms of hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia. A moderate positive correlation (r = 0.4260) was found between knowledge of the disease and family income. Defining high-quality internet sources was the item with the lowest average difficulty in health literacy. Conclusion: the latent traits of the two instruments, expressed by the participants, revealed the main difficulties in maintaining disease control, supporting the development of actions to address the gaps.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; FAMILIES &; economics; RESEARCH; HYPERGLYCEMIA; RESEARCH methodology; CROSS-sectional method; QUANTITATIVE research; TYPE 2 diabetes; HEALTH literacy; PSYCHOMETRICS; CRONBACH'S alpha; PEARSON correlation (Statistics); INCOME; INTERNET access; QUESTIONNAIRES; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; HYPOGLYCEMIA; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL sampling; DATA analysis software; SYMPTOMS; MIDDLE age; OLD age
- Publication
Journal of Nursing UFPE / Revista de Enfermagem UFPE, 2023, Vol 17, Issue 1, p328
- ISSN
1981-8963
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5205/1981-8963.2023.254648