Evidence for therapeutic patient education interventions to promote cardiovascular patient self-management: a scientific statement for healthcare professionals from …

S Barnason, C White-Williams, LP Rossi… - … Quality and Outcomes, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—The burden of cardiovascular disease as a chronic illness increasingly
requires patients to assume more responsibility for their self-management. Patient education …

What do we know about adherence and self-care?

LS Evangelista, MA Shinnick - Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 2008 - journals.lww.com
Despite advances in healthcare, heart failure patients continue to experience complications
that could have been prevented or treated. This occurs because the only way that a …

Health literacy, cognitive function, proper use, and adherence to inhaled asthma controller medications among older adults with asthma

R O'Conor, MS Wolf, SG Smith, M Martynenko… - Chest, 2015 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND We sought to investigate the degree to which cognitive skills explain
associations between health literacy and asthma-related medication use among older adults …

Effect of health literacy on drug adherence in patients with heart failure

M Noureldin, KS Plake, DG Morrow… - … : The Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Study Objective To assess the effect of health literacy on drug adherence in the context of a
pharmacist‐based intervention for patients with heart failure. Design Post hoc analysis of a …

Cognition and health literacy in patients with hypertension

BR Levinthal, DG Morrow, W Tu, J Wu… - Journal of general …, 2008 - Springer
BACKGROUND Approximately half of the US population has marginal or inadequate health
literacy, a measure highly associated with health outcomes. This measure is often linked to …

Racial disparities in health literacy and access to care among patients with heart failure

SI Chaudhry, J Herrin, C Phillips, J Butler… - Journal of cardiac …, 2011 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Previous work has shown that there is a higher frequency of
hospitalizations among black heart failure patients relative to white heart failure patients. We …

“Teach to goal”: theory and design principles of an intervention to improve heart failure self-management skills of patients with low health literacy

DW Baker, DA DeWalt, D Schillinger… - Journal of health …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Self-management is vital for achieving optimal health outcomes for patients with heart failure
(HF). We sought to develop an intervention to improve self-management skills and …

Health literacy mediates the relationship between age and health outcomes in patients with heart failure

JR Wu, DK Moser, DA DeWalt, MK Rayens… - Circulation: Heart …, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Previous studies have linked frequent rehospitalizations for heart failure (HF)
and increased mortality with older age, higher severity of HF, lack of an evidence-based …

Health literacy and self-care of patients with heart failure

AMH Chen, KS Yehle, KS Plake… - Journal of …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Heart failure is a progressive chronic condition characterized by an impairment of the
ventricles to fill or eject blood, leading to dypsnea, fluid retention, and eventually death. 1 …

The process-knowledge model of health literacy: evidence from a componential analysis of two commonly used measures

J Chin, DG Morrow, EAL Stine-Morrow… - Journal of health …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
We investigated the effects of domain-general processing capacity (fluid ability such as
working memory), domain-general knowledge (crystallized ability such as vocabulary), and …