The relationship between health literacy and perceived shared decision making in patients with breast cancer

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women [1]. Being diagnosed with breast cancer is a heavy burden for patients and often requires that many healthcare decisions be made. Active participation in healthcare decisions requires an adequate level of health literacy. Health literacy has been conceptualised, by the European Health Literacy Consortium, as an individual ’s competencies to access, understand, appraise, and apply health information to make judgments and decisions concerning healthcare, disease prevention, and health promotion contexts to maintain or improve their quality of life [2].
Source: Patient Education and Counseling - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Source Type: research