Objective We examined the potential of conversational agents (CAs) to support older adults'
self-care related to chronic illness in light of lessons learned from decades of pedagogical …

Objectives To identify factors associated with poor health literacy in older adults. Methods A
systematic literature review was conducted, employing the descriptors “Aged” and “Health …

Background Patient knowledge about the purpose of medications is crucial to ensure safe
and correct use, so it is an important index of adherence in patients with chronic illness …

Background The perception of illness may lead to improving the hypertensive patients'
lifestyle, but no study was found in this regard. Therefore, this study was conducted to …

Background: Black women living with HIV (WLH) have the highest HIV infection rate, cervical
cancer mortality, and the lowest cancer screening use compared to other groups. However …

Abstract Background Illness perceptions (IPs) can affect cardiac health behaviours and
outcomes. Aims and objectives To investigate IPs among patients hospitalized with acute …

Objective The aim of this study was to describe the levels of illness perception and identify
interrelations among the variables of illness perception, demographic, and health‐related …

We argue that the concept of health literacy, in itself, is less important than lifespan
psychological models integrated with a human factors engineering approach for explaining …

Background Musculoskeletal complaints present a substantial disease burden worldwide
and account for nearly 8% of the total disease burden in Australia. Like other chronic …

Understanding the relationship between psychological stress and blood pressure is a key in
helping patients with hypertension control their blood pressure. The objective of this study …