Awareness On Clinical Literacy Among General Public - An Explorative Study Of Direct Opinions Of Patients In Urban And Rural Of Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh

Literacy is different from illiteracy; where both are quite differentiate from clinical literacy that is what the researcher would like to focus with the help of the present study. The present study conducted on patients of urban and rural area hospitals on the basis of literacy levels. Both literate and illiterate patients in and around Vijayawada area are considered as the respondents in the study. Awareness on clinical terminology, Interest on clinical literacy improvements, are the variables in the study. The researcher constructed a scale based on awareness and interest the questionnaire has been developed and circulated among patients in both local and English language respectively. And for analysis SPSS software has been used.