Does Health Literacy Have an Impact on Adherence to Diabetes Mellitus Treatment?

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

 

The authors have done a great effort indeed however some points need to be addressed before further consideration.

State the objective of your study clearly

The rationale of your study should be backed by the literature with adequate reasons.

Use PRISMA guidelines and attach a checklist.

PRISMA diagram should be included in the manuscript.

What were the exclusion and inclusion criteria?

A description of key terms should be provided.

 

Please extend the section on recommendations 

 

Author Response

Thank you for the valuable comments. Comments were effected as follows:

1. State the objective of your study clearly. Respone: effecected under introduction, line 38-40.

2. The rationale of your study should be backed by the literature with adequate reasons. Resonse: Introduction, para 1, line 8-17.

3. Use PRISMA guidelines and attach a checklist. Response: the study followed Narrative Literature Review methodology which, unlike a systematic review, does not require PRISMA.

4. PRISMA diagram should be included in the manuscript. Response: same as comment no.3.

5. What were the exclusion and inclusion criteria? Response: page 2, line 60-62

6. A description of key terms should be provided. Response: page 2, line 52-58.

7. Please extend the section on recommendations. Response: page 8, line 372-376. 

Reviewer 2 Report

The authors reported a good narrative review of the effect of Health Litteracy on adherence and glycemic control in diabetes.

The review as a whole is well written. 

Some changes could be made to improve some of the information:

- It would be interesting to make a table or graph that would best bring together the data from the articles reviewed. The literature review is lengthy. This would make a visual summary much easier to see.

- Is there a consensus scale or score on the diagnosis of health literacy and its correlations with diabetes disequilibrium? 

- The authors should put a word on the other ways to best manage diabetes according to the IDF, ADA, SFD recommendations. Management should be multidisciplinary including several actors in addition to cognitive knowledge management as they reported.

They could include this study published in a journal from the same continent that highlights this goal (doi: 10.11604/pamj.2022.41.192.23965).

 

 

 

Author Response

Thank you for the valuable comments. Comments were effected as follows:

1. It would be interesting to make a table or graph that would best bring together the data from the articles reviewed. The literature review is lengthy. This would make a visual summary much easier to see. Response: This comment was addressed in the previous reviewer's comment under the question about PRISMA.
2. Is there a consensus scale or score on the diagnosis of health literacy and its correlations with diabetes disequilibrium? Response: This question was not clear to the authors. We, therefore, request clarity.
3. The authors should put a word on the other ways to best manage diabetes according to the IDF, ADA, SFD recommendations. Management should be multidisciplinary including several actors in addition to cognitive knowledge management as they reported. Response: The study is not about diabetes management however, it is concerned about the impact of health literacy on treatment compliance in diabetes mellitus patients.
4. They could include this study published in a journal from the same continent that highlights this goal (doi: 10.11604/pamj.2022.41.192.23965). Response: This article was checked and is not relevant to the study at the moment.

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

No further comments.