Low health literacy, poor knowledge, and practice among Turkish women patients undergoing cervical cancer screening

Yılmazel, Gülay

Low health literacy, poor knowledge, and practice among Turkish women patients undergoing cervical cancer screening

dc.authorid	Yılmazel, Gülay / 0000-0002-2487-5464
dc.authorscopusid	55759265000
dc.contributor.author	Yılmazel, Gülay
dc.date.accessioned	2020-01-30T13:09:14Z
dc.date.available	2020-01-30T13:09:14Z
dc.date.issued	2019	en_US
dc.department	Hitit Üniversitesi, Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi, Hemşirelik Bölümü
dc.description.abstract	Objective: The objective of this study is to evaluate health literacy level, cervical cancer knowledge, and practice among women patients undergoing screening. Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted among 455 women family health center patients. Health literacy level was evaluated by Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine. Patients characteristics, health behaviors, cervical cancer knowledge, and practice were assessed by a questionnaire form. Chi square test and logistic regression analyses were applied. Results: This study has found that 19.3% women were in adequate health literacy level and 80.7% of were in low (inadequate or marginal) level. Health literacy levels were showed significant differences by age, education status, employment, self perception of health, health condition and having health profession, smoking status, physical activity, body mass index, taking health care, skills and concern on materials. Inadequate health literacy was significantly higher among women patients with poor cervical cancer knowledge and practice. Based on binary regression analyses, adequate health literacy was significantly associated with younger ages. Conclusion: Adequate health literacy was poor among women patients. Health literacy levels were affected by patient characteristics, health behaviors, and cervical cancer knowledge and practice.
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dc.identifier.citation	Yilmazel, G. (2019). Low health literacy, poor knowledge, and practice among Turkish women patients undergoing cervical cancer screening. Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics, 15(6), 1276-1281.
dc.identifier.doi	10.4103/jcrt.JCRT_1142_16
dc.identifier.endpage	1281	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0973-1482
dc.identifier.issn	1998-4138
dc.identifier.issue	6	en_US
dc.identifier.pmid	31898660
dc.identifier.scopus	2-s2.0-85077465089
dc.identifier.scopusquality	Q3
dc.identifier.startpage	1276	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://doi.org/10.4103/jcrt.JCRT_1142_16
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/11491/5670
dc.identifier.volume	15	en_US
dc.identifier.wosquality	N/A
dc.indekslendigikaynak	Web of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynak	Scopus
dc.indekslendigikaynak	PubMed
dc.institutionauthor	Yılmazel, Gülay
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	NLM (Medline)
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal Of Cancer Research And Therapeutics
dc.relation.publicationcategory	Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject	Cervical Cancer	en_US
dc.subject	Health Knowledge	en_US
dc.subject	Health Literacy	en_US
dc.subject	Practice	en_US
dc.subject	Women	en_US
dc.title	Low health literacy, poor knowledge, and practice among Turkish women patients undergoing cervical cancer screening
dc.type	Article