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Health Literacy Among Adults With Multiple Chronic Health Conditions

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JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH MANAGEMENT AND PRACTICE
Volume 28, Issue 2, Pages E610-E614

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LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000001352

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BRFSS; health literacy; multiple chronic conditions

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Low health literacy is associated with poorer health outcomes, especially among adults with multiple chronic conditions. Efforts to improve health literacy in this population are needed to address the prevalence of low health literacy and its impact on health outcomes.
Low health literacy (HL) is associated with poorer health outcomes. We examined HL among adults with multiple chronic conditions (CCs), using 2016 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data. Health literacy was measured by 3 subjective questions about difficulty with the following tasks: (1) obtaining health information or advice; (2) understanding spoken health information; and (3) understanding written health information. We estimated the prevalence of low HL (difficulty with >= 1 HL tasks) and used multiple logistic regression analysis to examine associations between HL and number of CCs. The prevalence of low HL was 13.8% overall and increased with the number of CCs from 10.6% among those with no CC to 24.7% among those with 3 or more CCs, with the latter having more than twice the adjusted odds of low HL compared with the former (adjusted odds ratio = 2.65; 95% confidence interval, 2.36-2.97). Efforts to improve HL in this population are needed.

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