PMID- 29129000
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20180521
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1432-5233 (Electronic)
IS  - 0940-5429 (Linking)
VI  - 55
IP  - 1
DP  - 2018 Jan
TI  - Health literacy in type 2 diabetes patients: a systematic review of systematic 
      reviews.
PG  - 1-12
LID - 10.1007/s00592-017-1071-1 [doi]
AB  - Aim To summarize, critically review, and interpret the evidence related to the 
      systematic reviews on health literacy (HL) amongst type 2 diabetes mellitus 
      (T2DM). Methods The methodology for this study consisted of a systematic review 
      of systematic reviews, using the PRISMA statement and flowchart to select 
      studies, and searching on PubMed, CINAHL, Scopus, and Cochrane. The search 
      covered the period between January 2006 and June 2016. Results From the 115 
      identified record by the queries, only six systematic reviews were included, 
      following a quality evaluation using AMSTAR. The included systematic reviews 
      content was analyzed by the independent work of two authors, using a narrative 
      synthesis approach. The findings of this study (i.e., main themes) are areas of 
      consensus and gaps in knowledge. Areas of consensus are HL definition, HL 
      measurement tools, and the relationship between T2DM patient knowledge (or 
      literacy) and his/her HL. The gaps in knowledge were the assessment of the 
      relations between HL and health outcomes and self-efficacy, the gender 
      differences, the effectiveness of interventions to improve HL, the 
      cost-effectiveness study of interventions to improve HL, and the understanding of 
      the influence of organizational environment on HL. Conclusion This review 
      provides a current state of knowledge to address clinical practice and research 
      proposals. HL could be useful to personalize patients' follow-up and it should be 
      routinely assessed in its three dimensions (i.e. functional, interactive and 
      critical) to enhance patients' ability to cope with clinical recommendations. 
      Future research should be mainly aimed to test the effectiveness of 
      evidence-based interventions to improve HL amongst T2DM patients.
FAU - Caruso, Rosario
AU  - Caruso R
AD  - Health Professions Research and Development Unit, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato 
      University Hospital, San Donato Milanese, MI, Italy.
FAU - Magon, Arianna
AU  - Magon A
AD  - Health Professions Research and Development Unit, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato 
      University Hospital, San Donato Milanese, MI, Italy.
FAU - Baroni, Irene
AU  - Baroni I
AD  - Health Professions Research and Development Unit, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato 
      University Hospital, San Donato Milanese, MI, Italy.
FAU - Dellafiore, Federica
AU  - Dellafiore F
AD  - Health Professions Research and Development Unit, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato 
      University Hospital, San Donato Milanese, MI, Italy.
FAU - Arrigoni, Cristina
AU  - Arrigoni C
AD  - Hygiene Section, Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine, 
      University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
FAU - Pittella, Francesco
AU  - Pittella F
AD  - Nursing Degree Course, University of Milan, Section of IRCCS Policlinico San 
      Donato University Hospital, San Donato Milanese, MI, Italy.
FAU - Ausili, Davide
AU  - Ausili D
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5212-6463
AD  - Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Via Cadore 48, 
      20900, Monza, Italy. davide.ausili@unimib.it.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
PT  - Systematic Review
DEP - 20171111
PL  - Germany
TA  - Acta Diabetol
JT  - Acta diabetologica
JID - 9200299
SB  - IM
MH  - Cost-Benefit Analysis
MH  - *Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/diagnosis/epidemiology/etiology/psychology
MH  - Female
MH  - *Health Literacy/standards/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Humans
MH  - Knowledge
MH  - Meta-Analysis as Topic
MH  - Prognosis
MH  - Review Literature as Topic
MH  - Sex Factors
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Diabetes knowledge
OT  - Diabetes mellitus
OT  - Health literacy
OT  - Health outcomes
OT  - Systematic review
OT  - Type 2 diabetes mellitus
EDAT- 2017/11/13 06:00
MHDA- 2018/05/22 06:00
CRDT- 2017/11/13 06:00
PHST- 2017/10/04 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2017/11/03 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2017/11/13 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/05/22 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2017/11/13 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/s00592-017-1071-1 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s00592-017-1071-1 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Acta Diabetol. 2018 Jan;55(1):1-12. doi: 10.1007/s00592-017-1071-1. Epub 2017 Nov 
      11.