ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: Health literacy has been linked to poorer diabetes control and outcomes. Caregivers with poor health literacy may fail to comprehend various elements of diabetes education leading to poor glycaemic control of their children. No studies to date had investigated the link between caregivers’ health literacy and their children’s glycaemic control in an Arabic-speaking population.Objectives and hypothesis: Our aim is to study the link ...

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...