Correlation Between Functional Health Literacy and Self-efficacy in People with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Cross-sectional Study

Luis Angel Cendejas Medina, Renan Alves Silva, Magda Milleyde de Sousa Lima, Lívia Moreira Barros, Rafael Oliveira Pitta Lopes, Geórgia Alcântara Alencar Melo, José Cláudio Garcia Lira Neto and Joselany à fio Caetano

Clinical Nursing Research, 2022, vol. 31, issue 1, 20-28

Abstract: To analyze the correlation between functional health literacy (FHL) and self-efficacy (SE) in people with type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Cross-sectional study was conducted among September and October 2019, with 196 people with type 2 diabetes. Data were collected using the Functional Literacy in Health instrument (B-TOFHLA) and the Diabetes Management Self-Efficacy Scale for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (DMSES). Bivariate analysis was used to verify the relationship among the constructs. Most diabetics showed an average B-TOFHLA score of 74.75, considered adequate, and self-efficacy of 4.07, high. The association between SE and FHL in the bivariate analysis found no statistical significance ( p  > .05), in the same sense as the B-TOFHLA score and the DMSES domains ( p  > .05). Constructs were not related to each other in terms of skills arising from judgments and decisions with motivational confidence by the investigated audience.

Keywords: self-efficacy; functional literacy; diabetes mellitus Type 2; disease management; self-care; nursing. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/10547738211006841

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