Is low literacy associated with worse heart failure-related quality of life in patients with heart failure?
Low literacy is directly associated with worse heart failure-related quality of life, independent of knowledge, self-efficacy, and self-care behaviors.
Low literacy was associated with worse HFQOL and lower HF-related knowledge, self-efficacy, and self-care behaviors, but differences in knowledge, self-efficacy and self-care did not explain the relationship between low literacy and worse HFQOL.
Macabasco‐O’Connell et al. (Thu,) studied this question.
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