Health Literacy Levels of Patients Living With Type 2 Diabetes and Multi-disease and Their Families Using HLQTM

Patient and Family Health Literacy - a Survey Among 5000 People

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT07194759

Enrollment

4611

Registered

2025-09-26

Start date

2025-10-01

Completion date

2026-04-01

Last updated

2026-05-19

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Conditions

Health Literacy

Keywords

Diabetes Mellitus, Outpatients, Socioeconomic factors, Multiple chronic conditions, Family

Brief summary

This study aims to identify health literacy strengths and needs among people living with type 2 diabetes and multi-disease and their family members.

Detailed description

Living with diabetes and multi-disease affects not only the individual but also the social network around the person, as self-management is dependent on the ability to change one's lifestyle and manage the consequences of disease. In other words, health literacy strengths and needs of the individual and family members are determinants of how people manage living with type 2 diabetes. Thus, we hypothesise that diabetes management is influenced by the patient's and family members' health literacy. Knowledge about their health literacy could further enhance a patient- and family-centred approach to diabetes treatment and care, improving self-management and promoting health.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

FAMILY_BASED

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* living with Type 2 diabetes and multi-disease * cognitively able to participate * following an outpatient care program

Exclusion criteria

* patients in palliative care * inability to read or speak Danish

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ)	At Enrollment	The Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ) is a 44-item validated questionnaire on health literacy. It consists of two parts, one part with 23 questions answered with a 4-point Likert Scale (strongly disagree = 1, disagree = 2, agree = 3, and strongly agree = 4). The second part has 21 questions answered with a 5-point Likert Scale (can't do/always difficult = 1, usually difficult = 2, sometimes difficult = 3, usually easy = 4, always easy = 5). The patient must select one of the scales for each of the 44 questions. The answers are self-reported via REDCap, one time after the survey is distributed.

Countries

Denmark

Contacts

STUDY_CHAIRFrans Brandt Kristensen

University Hospital of Southern Denmark, Hospital Sønderjylland

Outcome results