Liver Cirrhosis Patients' Digital Health Literacy and Perspective on Digital Healthcare, a Multicenter Questionnaire Study

Not Applicable

Not yet recruiting

• Conditions: Liver Cirrhosis

• Registration Number: NCT06745843
• Lead Sponsor: Maastricht University Medical Center

Brief Summary

The goal of this study is to investigate digital health literacy in liver cirrhosis patients.

Participants will fill in two questionnaires by email or mail.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2024-12
• Study First Submitted: 2024-12-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-12-17
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-12-17
• Study First Posted: 2024-12-20
• Last Update Posted: 2024-12-20
• Study Start: 2025-02
• Primary Completion: 2025-08
• Study Completion: 2025-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 180

Inclusion Criteria

• Liver cirrhosis diagnosis, based on liver biopsy, fibroscan (elastography), radiographic imaging and/or clinical criteria according to applied guidelines at the time of inclusion
• Age 18 years or older
• Treated at Gastroenterology department

Exclusion Criteria

• Objection to be approached for scientific studies requests, documented in electronic patient record

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Digital Health Literacy Instrument 2.0 scores	At time of enrollment, single point in time.	Digital health literacy Instrument (DHLI) 2.0 has 24 self-report items. People score how difficult they perceive certain tasks to be and how often they experience certain problems on the Internet. Each item was scored on a 4-point scale, with response options ranging from "very easy" to "very difficult" and from "never" to "often." Scores are reversed, so that a higher score represented a higher level of digital health literacy.
Number of right answers on digital health visualization questionnaire.	At time of enrollment, single point in time.	This is a questionnaire with items assessing health visualization literacy. People are shown 20 visualizations with information about their disease and answer a question to test if they understood the information in the visualization. The scores consist of number of right answers, so a higher score represent better digital health visualization.