ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: Health literacy is a recognized concept in diabetes care. The newest vital sign (NVS) is an English instrument established to test health literacy using a nutrition label. No studies looked into health literacy in the Arab world. Our aim is to translate and validate the NVS tool to Arabic then test it on a pilot of Arabic-speaking caregivers of children with type 1 diabetes.Methods: i) Production of the Arabic version: the English version o...