Association between caregiver health literacy and patient characteristics in pediatric new onset diabetes mellitus
Patients with NODM whose caregivers have lower health literacy represent a high-risk population associated with increased resource utilization, longer hospitalization, and risk for decreased uptake of diabetes technology. A health-literacy informed approach to initial education may offer opportunities to support the individual needs of caregivers.
Authors
- Erinn T. Rhodes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5872-1412)
- Christian G. Kohler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2203-7966)
- Katharine C. Garvey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2289-7344)
- Svetlana Azova (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3685-1387)
- Jean Potter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0740-0368)
- Sara Einis
- OLIVIA R. STERNS
- Gretchen Waldman
Institutions
- Boston Children's Hospital (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Public Health
- Published
- 2025-08-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2025.105892
- Primary Topic
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00