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Patients' health literacy and experience with instructions: Influence preferences for heart failure medication instructions

Author: Morrow, D. G. Country/countries: United States Number of patients participating in the study: 314 This study was focused on patients living with Heart Failure
Intervention analysed in the study: Usual Care Plus Intervention components: UCP
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Setting of implementation: N/A Professionals delivering the intervention: N/A Targeted self-management behaviours: N/A
Intervention analysed in the study: Education based intervention Intervention components: E
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Setting of implementation: Community-based care Professionals delivering the intervention: Pharmacists Targeted self-management behaviours: Medication use and adherence

Outcomes measured in the study

Outcome Measure Tool
Adherence to medication or other treatment Adherence to medication Medication Event Monitoring System (MEMS)
Hospital admissions Emergency room/department visits N/A
Hospital admissions All-cause hospital admissions N/A
Hospital admissions HF-related hospital admissions N/A
Hospital admissions Cardiovascular-related hospital admissions N/A
Quality of life Quality of life Chronic Heart Failure Questionnaire (CHQ)

Patient characteristics

Age: 62.1 years (+/- a standard deviation of 8.4) Gender: N/A Time since diagnosis of Heart Failure: N/A Severity of the disease: N/A Multi-morbidity: N/A
  • Number of co-morbidities: 1.0

Level of health literacy: N/A
  • Tool: N/A

Socio-economic characteristics: N/A

Risk of Bias of this study

Outcome Random sequence generation Allocation concealment Blinding performance Blinding detection objective outcomes assessment Attrition incomplete outcome Incorrect statistical methods Recruitment bias Selective outcome reporting
Adherence to medication or other treatment - Adherence to medication
Hospital admissions - Emergency room/department visits
Hospital admissions - All-cause hospital admissions
Hospital admissions - HF-related hospital admissions
Hospital admissions - Cardiovascular-related hospital admissions
Quality of life - Quality of life

Other publications associated with this study

Effect of health literacy on drug adherence in patients with heart failure Link: 10.1002/j.1875-9114.2012.01109.x Pharmacist intervention to improve medication adherence in heart failure: A randomized trial Link: 10.7326/0003-4819-146-10-200705150-00005.