Understanding how educational interventions improve treatment adherence in patients with familial hypercholesterolaemia: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: Effective treatments for familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) offer patients the opportunity of normal life expectancy, but lifelong adherence to both lipid-lowering therapies and lifestyle measures is challenging, and thus, this is rarely achieved. The aim of this systematic review is to identify attributes of educational interventions that promote adherence to treatment in FH. A systematic literature search was undertaken using Medline, CINAHL, HMIC and Embase. Papers were included based upon pre-defined inclusion and exclusion criteria; the quality of each included paper was assessed using the MERSQI scoring system. Relevant data were extracted, and a narrative synthesis was created. Six relevant studies of varying methodological quality were found amongst 2963 papers identified during t

SUBMITTER: Massey H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9947204 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature