An Investigation Into the Relationship Between Health Literacy and Health Outcomes in Patients After a Heart Attack

Patients with coronary heart disease that are hospitalized with an incident myocardial infarction (MI). Participants will be required to take part in a survey at three different times: within 30-days after their MI; 6-months post-MI; and 12-months post-MI. Each survey will take about 20 minutes and can be completed online, or over the phone. The survey will consist of the European Health Literacy Survey-Q12 (HLS19-Q12) to measure health literacy; the validated EuroQoL questionnaire (EQ-5D-5L) to measure health-related quality of life; 2 questions about cardiac rehabilitation attendance; Scale 3,4,5 and 6 of the health literacy questionnaire (HLQ) to measure patient activation, social support for health, health care provider engagement, and navigating the healthcare system; the Cardiac Self-efficacy (CSE) Scale to measure cardiac self-efficacy; the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ-7) to measure physical activity; and the Medication Adherence Rating Scale (MARS-10) to measure medication adherence. All other assessments will be obtained without participant involvement by data linkage with the Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset, the Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset, the National Death Index, and Services Australia up to 2 years post-MI hospital admission.