The Development and Psychometric Assessment of Chinese Medication Literacy Scale for Hypertensive Patients (C-MLSHP).

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To develop the medication literacy scale for patients with hypertension, and to test the reliability and validity of the scale.

Methods

The initial draft of the scale was formulated based on the operationalization of medication literacy with four core elements of knowledge, attitude, skill, and practice, and was developed through procedures of literature review, interviews to hypertensive patients, and research group discussion. Expert panel meeting, interviews, and pre-test on the initial draft of the scale to 10 hypertensive patients, as well as a two iterations of expert feedback were used to form a primary medication literacy scale for pilot investigation and item selection. In this study, 260 patients with hypertension in Changsha city of China were purposivel

SUBMITTER: Zhong Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7203424 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature