Effect of a health literacy intervention trial on knowledge about cardiovascular disease medications among Indigenous peoples in Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:To assess the effect of a customised, structured cardiovascular disease (CVD) medication health literacy programme on medication knowledge among Indigenous people with, or at high risk of, CVD. DESIGN:Intervention trial with premeasures and postmeasures at multiple time points. SETTING:Indigenous primary care services in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. PARTICIPANTS:171 Indigenous people aged ≥20 years of age who had at least one clinical diagnosis of a CVD event, or in Canada and Australia had a 5-year CVD risk ≥15%, and were prescribed at least two of the following CVD medication classes: statin, aspirin, ACE inhibitors and beta blockers. INTERVENTION:An education session delivered on three occasions over 1 month by registered nurses or health educators who had received trai

SUBMITTER: Crengle S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5786120 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature