Development and evaluation of a patient education intervention to improve health literacy (HL) for patients with chronic illness

Not Applicable

• Conditions: chronic back pain (ICD-10: M47.1-M47.9, M48.1, M48.2, M48.8; M15-M19; M47.1; M47.2; M48.9, M51.0-M51.9, M53.8, M53.9, M54.1, M54.3, M54.4, M54.5, M54.8, M54.9, F45.4); M48.2; M51.8; M54.4; M54.8; M47.8

• Registration Number: DRKS00000655
• Lead Sponsor: niversitätaklinikum Freiburg Institut für Qualitätsmanagement und Sozialmedizin

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2011-01-21
• Study Completion: 2014-05-31
• Last Update Posted: 19 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Complete
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1473

Inclusion Criteria

Diagnosis (chronic back pain, arthritis)

Exclusion Criteria

language impairment; cognitive and/or physical impairment (patient is not able to fill out questionnaire)

Study & Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Development of a health education intervention to improve health literacy in patients with chronic back pain and arthritis. Qualitative pilot study: group based interviews with patients and health education trainers. <br>Quantitative pilot study: assessing the psychometric property of a newly self-developed questionnaire assessing the fit between health literacy and health education (HALEDU). <br>Evaluation of the newly developed health education intervention to improve health literacy (quantitative main study, measurement occasions: before rehab, after rehab, 3 month after rehab):<br>Fit between the health education programme run through by the patient during inpatient rehabilitation to his own health literacy using the HALEDU questionnaire.<br>Overall estimation of the developed health education intervention (utiliy, relevance, etc.) using the programme-evaluation” scale of the Health Education Impact Questionnaire” (heiQ).<br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Evaluation of the health intervention programme regarding rehabilitation outcome in general (measurement occasions: before rehab, after rehab, 3 month after rehab):<br>Health related behaviour, self-regulation, adherence to behavioural recommendations, self-management competencies, disease management (Health Eudcation Impact Questionnaire (heiQ), Questionnaire Assessing Health Related Behaviour [in German], Questionnaire Assessing Illness- and Health Related Control Convictions [in German], Freiburg Questionnaire of Disease Management [in German].<br>Evaluation of the health education intervention by health education trainers (acceptance/ perceived utility) using a self-developed questionnaire<br>