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Does health literacy reinforce disease knowledge gain? : a prospective observational study of hungarian COPD patients

Papp-Zipernovszky, Orsolya ; Csabai, Márta ; Schulz, Peter J. ; Varga, János T.

In: Journal of clinical medicine, 2021, vol. 10, no. 17, p. 13

We set out to measure the health literacy (HL) of COPD patients using the Short Test of Functional Health Literacy (S- TOFHLA), perception-based screening questions (BHLS), and a specific disease knowledge test (COPD-Q). Our main focus is the relationship between functional HL and patients’ disease-knowledge, which contributes to the clarification of the relationship between the different...