Abstract:BackgroundHealth literacy is a multidimensional concept comprising various individual skills and situational resources and is increasingly recognized as a critical determinant of health. Limited health literacy has been demonstrated to associate negatively with health outcomes in multiple chronic diseases, but data on the relevance of health literacy for treatment and outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is still limited.ObjectivesThe aim of this study was to explore the longitudinal association between healt… Show more
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