POS0299 SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUND IS ASSOCIATED WITH DISCORDANCE BETWEEN HEALTH LITERACY OF PEOPLE WITH RMDs AND ASSESSMENT OF HEALTH LITERACY BY THEIR TREATING HEALTH PROFESSIONAL

Background: Health literacy is increasingly recognised as a critical determinant of health. While care should be tailored to the health literacy needs of each patient [1], research in primary care shows that physicians often under- or overestimate their patients’ health literacy, with socioeconomic factors playing a role [2]. Evidence in a rheumatology setting is scarce. Objectives: -To investigate discordance between health literacy of patients...