Nutrition Literacy of Gout Patients on Food Consumption in Watnongwaeng Medical Center, Khon Kaen Province : ความฉลาดทางโภชนาการของผู้ป่วยโรคเกาต์ต่อการบริโภคอาหาร ในเขตศูนย์แพทย์วัดหนองแวง จังหวัดขอนแก่น

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ABSTRACT

          This cross-sectional descriptive research designed to investigate the nutrition literacy of gout patients on food consumption and analyze the association between the nutrition literacy components and the consumption frequency of purine containing food of gout patients in Watnongwaeng medical center, Khon Kaen province. Forty five gout patients were systemic randomly sampling. Data were analyzed using the descriptive statistics and the association between the nutrition literacy components and the consumption frequency of purine-containing food were tested by Spearman’s correlation coefficient.

          The results showed that 91.11% of gout patients were male. Their average age was 58.30 years old and 33.33% of them aged 50-59 years. Fifty three percent of patients had the correct knowledge about gout, food consumption and self-care in a moderate level. The percentages of their access to the knowledge resources in a low level, communication skill in a moderate level, decision making ability in a high level, Self-management skill in a moderate level and media literacy in a low level were 80%, 64%, 56.00%, 67.00% and 62.00%, respectively. Concerning their purine-containing food consumption, of 53.33% consumed all type of mushrooms very often, of 28.90% consumed chicken and duck's eggs very often, of 62.22% consumed chicken and duck’s eggs moderately. Of 97.78% of gout patients did not consume stink bean seed, 88.89% did not consume seaweed, sea-hae shrimp and shrimp paste. The nutritional literacy components were not significantly correlated with their consumption frequency of purine-containing food.

           Keywords : Nutrition Literacy, Gout Patients,  Purine