Evaluation of the SUCCESS Health Literacy App for Australian Adults With Chronic Kidney Disease: Protocol for a Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We developed a smartphone app-the SUCCESS (Supporting Culturally and Linguistically Diverse CKD Patients to Engage in Shared Decision-Making Successfully) app-to support Australian adults with kidney failure undertaking dialysis to actively participate in self-management and decision-making. The content of the SUCCESS app was informed by a theoretical model of health literacy that recognizes the importance of reducing the complexity of health information as well as providing skills necessary to access, understand, and act on this information.

Objective

The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficacy of the SUCCESS app intervention.

Methods

We designed a multicenter pragmatic randomized controlled trial to compare the SUCCESS app plus usual care (in

SUBMITTER: Isautier J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9475407 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature