PURPOSE This study aimed to investigate the relationships between uncertainty in illness, subjective health status, and compliance with sick role behavior according to levels of health literacy in hemodialysis patients. METHODS Participants were 172 hemodialysis patients, selected from outpatient dialysis clinics at 9 dialysis centers located in Gwangju metropolitan city and Chonnam province, from October to December 2016. Data were collected using self-reported questionnaires that included the Uncertainty in Illness Scale, Subjective Health Status Scale, Sick Role Behavior Scale, and Health Literacy Scale. Data were analyzed using the SPSS/WIN 23.0 program, with χ2-test, Pearson correlation coefficient, and multivariate analysis of covariance. RESULTS The results revealed that uncertainty was negatively correlated with subjective health status (r=−.30, p < .001) and compliance with sick role behavior (r=−.20, p=.012). In addition, compliance with sick role behavior was positively correlated with health literacy (r=.17, p=.034) and subjective health status (r=.24, p=.003). Participants' levels of health literacy differed significantly based on sick role behaviors (F=5.355, p=.006), with a partial eta squared of .070, indicating high explanatory power. CONCLUSION This study suggests that hemodialysis patients do not understand health - related medical information appropriately in their daily life. Therefore, efforts should be made to identify the level of health literacy of hemodialysis patients and improve the performance of sick role behaviors.
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Coronary intervention is now a well established method for the treatment of coronary artery disease. Coronary restenosis is one of the major limitations after coronary intervention. So medical teams advise the patients to get the follow-up coronary angiogram in 6 months after coronary intervention to know if the coronary artery stenosis recurs or not. This study was done in order to know how many patients complied with the advice, and to identify the relative factors to the compliance with getting the follow-up coronary angiogram. The subjects were 101 patients (male: 58 female: 22, mean age: 61+/-15), who received coronary interventions from Jan. 1st to Mar. 31st 1997, and their data were collected from them by questionnaires one year after intervention. The questionnaires consisted of family support scale, self efficacy scale and compliance with sick role behavior scale. The result may be summarized as follows.
1. The number of patients who complied with getting the follow-up coronary angiogram were 37 people(36.6%) and did not comply with it were 64 people(63.4%). All scores of family support(t=5.56, p<.0001), self efficacy (t=4.13, p<.0001) and compliance with sick role behavior(t=5.66, p<.0001) were significantly higher in the patients who got the follow-up coronary angiogram than in those who did not get it. But there was not any relative factor in demographic variables (p>.05). 2. The major motivations for getting follow-up coronary angiogram were recurrence of subjective symptom(40.5%), the advice of medical team(32.4%), and fear of recurrence (27.1%). The restenosis rate in patients who got the follow-up coronary angiogram was 37.8%. 3.The restenosis rate was higher in the patients who had subjective symptoms than in those who did not have any subjective symptom. So subjective symptom and restenosis rate showed a high positive correlation(r=39.9, p<.001). However, 27.2% of the patients who did not have any subjective symptom showed coronary restenosis. 4. The reasons why they did not get the follow-up coronary angiogram were economic burden(37.5%), improved symptom(34.4%), busy life schedule(10.9%), fear of invasive procedure(9.4%), negative reaction of family member(3.1%), no helper for patient(3.1%) and worry about medical team's mistake (1.6%). The relative fators on compliance with getting the follow-up coronary angiogram after coronary intervention were family support, self-efficacy and Compliance with sick role behavior. And the most important reason why the patients did not get the follow-up coronary angiogram after coronary intervention was an economic burden.
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