Proactive personality and health literacy among patients with permanent colostomy: an observational study
Catégorie d'article: Original article
Publié en ligne: 14 mars 2025
Pages: 91 - 97
Reçu: 25 oct. 2023
Accepté: 04 août 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fon-2025-0010
Mots clés
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Objective
To investigate the distribution of health literacy (HL) levels and the association of HL with proactive personality in patients with permanent colostomy.
Methods
A cross-sectional study was conducted to measure proactive personality and HL using validated scales. A total of 172 patients with permanent colostomy were selected from January 2021 to May 2022 in Yantai City, China. Descriptive statistics,
Results
The results obtained from the study showed that the HL status of the participants was moderate. The correlation between participants’ total HL scores and proactive personality scores was 0.417 (
Conclusions
This study showed that patients with higher proactive personality scores had higher HL. The key stakeholders require several positive strategies to improve the HL of patients with permanent colostomy by cultivating their proactive personalities, and these important policies will help to improve patient health and quality of life.