Health Literacy of Chronic Kidney Disease Patients

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Nawalak Klangburam
Petcharat Jermrod

Abstract

The objectives of this study were; 1) to study the level of health literacy of chronic kidney disease patients 2) to compare the level of health literacy of chronic kidney disease patients considered each aspect at age, gender, education, income and region. The samples of this study were 1,200 chronic kidney disease patients. The samples were collected by questionnaires. The statistic method sused for analysis were percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, and One-Way ANOVA. The results of this study indicated that 1) health literacy of chronic kidney disease patients were at the moderate level. When considering the health literacy in each aspect, it was found that the knowledge and understanding of health, accessing to health information, health information communication, health information assessment and applying knowledge about health were in the moderate level but media literacy was in the low level. 2) There was a significant difference at .05 level of the health literacy of chronic kidney disease patients in age, education, income and region.

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Klangburam, N., & Jermrod, . P. (2022). Health Literacy of Chronic Kidney Disease Patients . Kalasin University Journal of Science Technology and Innovation, 1(1), 61–77. https://doi.org/10.14456/ksti.2022.10
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