The effect of educational package with the help of health literacy index on medication adherence and hypertension management in elderly patients with hypertensio
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- Conditions
- Hypertension.Essential (primary) hypertension
- Registration Number
- IRCT20171227038097N1
- Lead Sponsor
- Tehran University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 120
Inclusion Criteria
All people over the age of 60.
Elderly who have ability to speak Persian and communicate with scholars.
All elder people who have been suffering from primary hypertension for at least one year before entering the study.
All people who are taking antihypertensive medications.
Elderly people who have 66 score or less in Helia Health Literacy Questionnaire.
Exclusion Criteria
Psychiatric disorders (dementia, depression)
Addicted people to drugs
Hospitalization
Death
Unwillingness to continue cooperation
Do not Complete the curriculum (one meeting and two phone calls)
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Percentage of People with Hypertension- Medication adherence in morisky questionaire. Timepoint: Measurement of hypertension and medication adherence at the beginning of the study and fifteen days after the end of intervention. Method of measurement: Morisky medication adherence Questionnaire - blood pressure monitoring.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method