Background The level of personal health literacy of patients with venous leg ulcers is likely
to affect their ability to self-manage their condition impacting on their adherence to treatment …

Objectives Both literature and policy have identified the need for health literacy education for
qualified health professionals. This study aimed to identify and map health literacy …

Objective To explore clinicians' perspectives regarding strategies to support exercise
interventions for people with venous leg ulcers. Design 1: 1 interview was guided by the …

Following the healing of venous leg ulcers, the primary problems for nursing and patients
are adhering to compression therapy and preventing ulcer recurrence. As a result, it is …

Background Venous leg ulcers affect 1.5% of the UK adult population. Leg ulcers are
painful, can be malodourous and are associated with poor quality of life. Leg ulcers are …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine how fatalism acts as a mediator in the
correlation between family resilience and self-management among patients with chronic …

Introduction: Health literacy education, for health professionals, has been identified as
having the potential to improve patient outcomes and has been recognized as such in policy …

Non-healing wounds related to adherence can be challenging to manage. At the project site,
there was no method to assess patient understanding in regard to wound care management …