A Patient-Centered Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Educational Intervention Improves HBV Care Among Underserved Safety-Net Populations.

ABSTRACT:

Goals

To evaluate the impact of a prospective patient-centered hepatitis B virus (HBV) educational intervention on improving HBV care.

Background

Improving patients' HBV knowledge has the potential to improve adherence to HBV monitoring and management, particularly among underserved safety-net populations.

Methods

Consecutive chronic HBV adults at a single-center safety-net liver clinic were recruited from July 2017 to July 2018 to evaluate the impact of an in-person, language concordant formal HBV educational intervention on improvements in HBV knowledge and HBV management: appropriate HBV clinic follow-up (≥1 visit/year), HBV laboratory monitoring (≥1 HBV viral load and alanine aminotransferase test/year), hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance (≥1 liver imaging test

SUBMITTER: Wong RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7744280 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature