Conditions of functional health literacy of an elderly diabetics group.

CONCLUSIONS: the low functional health literacy could be a self-care conditioning and can be influenced by low schooling because it implies to have skills to understand and make decisions aimed at self-management of health. PMID: 26871229 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26871229?dopt=Abstract

Source: Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem - February 1, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Santos MI, Portella MR Tags: Rev Bras Enferm Source Type: research