Revista médica de Chile
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Revista médica de Chile · Sep 2024
Randomized Controlled Trial[Health Literacy and Metabolic Control in Individuals Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial].
People with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) experience difficulties in self-management. One of the variables involved is the low level of health literacy (HL) which corresponds to the degree to which people access, understand, evaluate and use information to engage with health demands in different contexts, in order to promote and maintain good health. ⋯ An intervention that considers LS adapted to the Latin American sociocultural context with a combination of group and individual strategies can generate a difference in HBA1c.