The association between health literacy and outcomes of care among epilepsy patients

Seizure

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 400-404

  Bautista, Ramon Edmundo D ^a   Glen, E Tannahill ^a   Shetty, Namrata K ^a   Wludyka, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Epilepsy; Health literacy; Quality of life; Seizures

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CONTROL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCREENING TEST; SEIZURE; TARGET VARIABLE; UNITED STATES; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 67349110172     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2009.02.004     Document Type: Article

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