Naslov
Connection of health literacy with manifestation of obesity, arterial hypertension and diabetes mellitus type 2

Autori
Lovrić, Božica

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, prošireni sažetak, stručni

Izvornik
Book of abstracts: Dies Doctorandorum 2018 / Smolić, Martina - Osijek : Medicinski fakultet, Sveučilište u Osijeku, 2018, 47-49

ISBN
978-953-7736-38-5

Skup
Dies Doctorandorum 2018

Mjesto i datum
Osijek, Hrvatska, 12.09.2018. - 13.09.2018

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Domaća recenzija

Ključne riječi
health literacy ; obesity ; diabetes mellitus 2 ; arterial hypertension

Sažetak
Introduction: Health literacy attracts more and more attention because low health literacy is considered an important predictor of harmful health outcomes in many chronic diseases. Obesity is one of greater health problems nowadays, which has assimilated global epidemic proportions. According to World Health Organization data 1 5 billion people are overweight, out of which more than 500 million peop e are Considered obese, whereas a growth of prevalence is predicted in the years to come. Neither Croatia gets behind this data. Around 25, 3% men and 34, 1% women in Croatia are considered to be obese. Arterial hypertension is around 6 times more common with obese people than when it comes to normally weighted people. More than 220 million people in the world is affected by diabetes mellitus type , whereas obesity is one of risky factors for the development of this disease. This type is the most common form of diabetes. Around 90% of all patients has it. For the people with chronic disease, adequate level of health literacy is crucial for getting and understanding health information and services necessary for conducting and deciding about own health. Level of literacy can have a crucial role in communication between health workers and patients. It is necessary to estimate health literacy and to adjust communication. Hypothesis: Health literacy is worse with the patients who are obese, who suffer from arterial hypertension and those affected by the diabetes mellitus type 2, for each of these diseases separately when compared with the patients without these diseases. Aims: T. jo examine health literacy with hospitalized patients. 2. To examine demographic characteristics according to health literacy of the hospitalized patients. 3 To explore prevalence of obesity with the examinees. 4. To examine prevalence of arterial hypertension with the examinees. 5. To examine prevalence of diabetes mellitus type 2 with the examinees. 6. To examine health literacy according to obesity. 7. To examine health literacy according to arteriai hypertension. 8. To examine health literacy according to diabetes mellitus type 2. 9. To examine prevalence of obesity according to arteriai hypertension. 10. To examine prevalence of obesity according to diabetes mellitus type 2. 11. To examine prevalence of arterial hypertension according to diabetes mellitus type 2. Materials/Participants and Methods: The research is going to be conducted in General county hospital Požega, through a three-month period. Persons who do not understand Croatian language or are unconscious, are going to be excluded from this research. For the purpose of this research, a sectional view research is going to be conducted and original, primary data, gathered from the patients, as well as data gained from medical records, are going to be used. Before the very inclusion to the research, patients are going to be introduced with the purpose of the research, both orally and in written forms, whereas the participation in the survey itself is going to be voluntarily. Their own consent to participation in this research, patients are going to confirm with their signature on the form of Informed Consent. Anonymity and confidentiality are going to be ensured. As an instrument of the research, a questionnaire that contains the information about year of birth, gender, education, employment, marital status, body weight, height, place of residence, hospitalization department, reason of hospitalization, medical history of a suffered heart attack or a stroke, is going to be applied. Information that are not going to be available from this survey, the researcher is going to collect from the medical records of the patients. As a second instrument of this research, a valid Croatian translation of the survey questionnaire SAFILSA-50 which consists of fifty different terms (main words), is going to be used. Two terms are attached to each main word and the task of examinees is to choose the attached term that, according to their opinion, better matches the main word. This chosen attached term, examinees will have to mark with the letter "X" in a provided area. If the result of attached terms with the main word is lower than 37 or equal to it, it is going to be considered that the examinee is healthy illiterate. Statistical methods Numeral data are going to be described with the basic measures of centrality and dispersion. Normality of allocation of the observed numerical variables is going to be tested with Kolmogorov- Smirnov test. Categorical variables are going to be described with absolute and relative frequencies. For the determination of the differences with the measurement indicators between the two groups, Student T-test is going to be used for the parametric dispensation, whereas Mann-Whitney U-test is going to be used for nonparametric dispensation. For the determination of the differences between three or more groups, when it comes to parametric dispensation ANOVA^s going to be used, whereas Kruskal-Wallis test is going to be used for nonparametric dispensation. For the determination of differences of the proportions between the independent samples, y2- test and Fisher exact test are going to be used. Depending on normality of partition, Pearson or Sperman coefficient of correlation are going to be used for grading the connection of certain indicators. For grading significance of obtained results, level of significance P < 0, 05 has been chosen. Statistical analysis of the information is going to be conducted with the programme IBM SPSS Statistics (ver. 15.0, SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). Research plan: 1. To provide permission from the ethical commission of the General county hospital for the conduction of the research. 2. To appoint questionnaire and survey questions to collect relevant information. 3. To inform executives of the General county hospital Požega about purpose and aims of the research and procedure of gathering information, as well as to collect approvals for the research conduction. 4. To collect necessary information (to conduct research) within certain period, until sufficient number of examinees is achieved (planned period is approximately 3 months). 5. Collected information are to be properly entered simultaneously with the conduction of the research and they should be statistically analysed. Significance/ Expected scientific contribution: Scientific contributions will manifest in uniqueness of the received information about health literacy of the hospitalized patients in the district of Požega and its surrounding area. Such scientific evidence was not available in the published literature so far, related to this complex casuistry nor Croatian population. This information will enable us to examine prevalence of obesity and its connection with prevalence of arterial hypertension and diabetes mellitus type 2 among hospitalized patients. Obtained information will be useful for the healthcare workers who take care of patients, in order to awake the importance of adjusting communication to the level of health literacy of the patients and to make an effort when It comes to health education of the population.

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