Disease-specific health literacy, disease knowledge, and adherence behavior among patients with type 2 diabetes in Taiwan

Table 1 Model fit statistics

	Health Literacy	Diabetes-Specific Health Knowledge	Adherence Behavior	Fitting Index
Overall Model Fit
Chi-square	100.23	580.32	44.35	Smaller is better
RMSEA	0.03	0.05	0.08	< 0.05
Absolute Fit
GFI	0.98	0.95	0.98	> 0.9
AGFI	0.97	0.93	0.95	> 0.9
Comparative Fit
NNFI	0.85	0.67	0.81	> 0.9
CFI	0.89	0.73	0.91	> 0.9
ECVI	0.14	0.62	0.06	Smaller is better
Parsimonious Fit
PNFI	0.62	0.55	0.45	> 0.5
PGFI	0.61	0.70	0.33	> 0.5

Health literacy includes functional literacy, communicative literacy, and critical literacy
Diabetes-specific health knowledge includes healthy diet, exercise, glycemic monitoring, problem solving, risk reduction, and healthy coping

ISSN: 1471-2458