Abstract:
The objectives of this research were to study the health knowledge of type 2 diabetic patients and to compare the health knowledge among different sex, age and education, collected data from the respondents came to hospital belongs to Bangkok Metropolitan Administration. Multi-stage random sampling was used and the sample size was 498. The researcher used the ABCDE-Health Literacy Scale of Thai Adults developed by Health Education Division (HED) and adjusted it to the content related to type 2 diabetic patients. The content validity was 0.87 and the reliability was tested among 30 type 2 diabetic patients resemble the sample. The reliability of the questionnaire in section 2 of the questionnaires reliability was calculated by Richardsons alpha coefficient and found that it was 0.71. The section 3 and 4 was calculated by Cronbachs alpha coefficient and found that it was 0.76. The data were analyzed using percentage, mean, standard deviation. T-test and F-test were used to compare the differences of means. When the differences of means were statistically significant at 0.05, the researcher did Post hoc test using LSD. The results of the study found that the type 2 diabetic patients have a level of health literacy at a moderate level, but the literacy regarding the media and information is poor. Comparison of health knowledge in different educational levels found significant differences at 0.05 level on media and information literacy. Post hoc test found that Type 2 diabetic patients with secondary education or diploma and those with bachelors degree or higher degree had more information and media literacy skills than those who completed primary education or did not attend school. Type 2 diabetes patients in Bangkok and Vicinity had the fair level of health knowledge, but health literacy in media and the information is poor.