Health literacy and patient rights awareness in ethnic Hungarian mothers in Eastern Europe.

IF 1.1 4区医学 Q4 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Central European journal of public health Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI:10.21101/cejph.a7894

Renáta Erdei Jávorné, Melinda Nagy, Eszter Molnár, Réka Zsuzsánna Máthé, Emese Emőke Tóth-Batizán, Mária Konečná, Mária Zahatňanská, Marta Mydlárová Blaščáková, Janka Poráčová, Vincent Sedlák, Ágnes Sántha

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Abstract

Objectives: The paper proposes to identify the determinants of patients' rights awareness in mothers and to examine the relationship of health literacy with awareness of those rights.

Methods: Our results are based on data from a convenience sample of 894 non-health professional ethnic Hungarian mothers from Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. Health literacy is measured with the HLS-EU-16 questionnaire.

Results: Analysis of variance reveals a significant association of health literacy with patient rights awareness. Our results show that health literacy is the highest among patients who filed a complaint through formal channels and/or took legal measures to restore their rights upon violation. A logistic regression model is built to identify the likelihood of having high patient rights awareness, that is, acting formally for the restoration of rights upon infringement. The model controls for covariates. When controlled for covariates, the likelihood of having high patient rights awareness increases with age, and is higher for mothers with highest education, for inhabitants of larger towns, as well as for those with adequate health literacy.

Conclusions: The findings of our study have implications for health policy, as they reveal significant inequalities in patient rights culture.

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东欧匈牙利族母亲的健康知识和患者权利意识。

目的：本文旨在确定母亲对患者权利认识的决定因素，并研究健康素养与这些权利认识的关系：本文旨在确定母亲对患者权利认识的决定因素，并研究健康素养与这些权利认识之间的关系：我们的研究结果基于来自匈牙利、罗马尼亚和斯洛伐克的 894 位非卫生专业匈牙利族母亲的方便抽样数据。健康素养通过 HLS-EU-16 问卷进行测量：方差分析显示，健康素养与患者权利意识之间存在显著关联。我们的结果显示，通过正规渠道投诉和/或在权利受到侵犯时采取法律措施恢复权利的患者的健康素养最高。我们建立了一个逻辑回归模型，以确定患者是否具有较高的权利意识，即在权利受到侵犯时采取正式行动恢复权利。该模型控制了协变量。当控制了协变量后，具有高度患者权利意识的可能性随着年龄的增长而增加，对于受教育程度最高的母亲、较大城镇的居民以及具有足够健康知识的人来说，具有高度患者权利意识的可能性更高：我们的研究结果揭示了患者权利文化方面存在的严重不平等，因此对卫生政策具有重要意义。

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Central European journal of public health PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH-

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期刊介绍： The Journal publishes original articles on disease prevention and health protection, environmental impacts on health, the role of nutrition in health promotion, results of population health studies and critiques of specific health issues including intervention measures such as vaccination and its effectiveness. The review articles are targeted at providing up-to-date information in the sphere of public health. The Journal is geographically targeted at the European region but will accept specialised articles from foreign sources that contribute to public health issues also applicable to the European cultural milieu.