The Role of Health Literacy and Self-care of men with Diabetes in predicting Women's Marital Satisfaction

The aim of this study was to investigate the role of health literacy and self-care of men with diabetes in predicting women's marital satisfaction.

The research method was descriptive-correlational. Considering the inclusion criteria of 330 men with diabetes and their wives in a simple random method from the Diabetes Association of Khuzestan Province in 2020 participated in this study. In order to collect data, the ENRICH Couple Scale (Fowers & Olson, 1989), Health Literacy for Iranian Adults (Montazeri et al., 2014) and Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activities (Toobert et al., 2000) were used. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and regression.

The results showed that marital satisfaction had a positive and significant correlation with health literacy (r=0.306; p= 0.001) and self- care (r=0.543; p=0.001). Regression results showed that only the variable of health literacy in men can play a predictive role for women's satisfaction (β=0.543; p=0.0001) and a total of 0.29 of marital satisfaction.

According to the results, the importance of paying attention to the promotion of self-care behaviors in men with diabetes in order to improve marital relationships is suggested.