Health illiteracy among patients with chronic lung disease entering pulmonary rehabilitation and their resident loved ones: prevalence and relationship with health outcomes: A pilot study.
- Conditions
- Health Illiteracy, COPD, Health Literacy, Lung disease, Asthma
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON23878
- Lead Sponsor
- Performer; Maastricht University
- Brief Summary
not applicable
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 120
Patients were considered eligible when diagnosed with chronic lung disease (defined as chronic disease of the airways and other structures of the lungs, including but not limited to: asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pulmonary hypertension, interstitial lung disease, and bronchiectasis, (WHO, 2007)), and referred for PR. Resident loved ones are defined as persons living together with a patient with chronic lung disease (Nakken et al., 2014).
Participants were excluded when they were younger than 18, unable to speak or understand the Dutch language or were considered incapacitated.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational non invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Primary outcomes are subjective and objective health literacy as measured by the REALM-D and HLS-EU-Q16 questionnaire.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
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