Health illiteracy among patients with chronic lung disease entering pulmonary rehabilitation and their resident loved ones: prevalence and relationship with health outcomes: A pilot study.

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

NL-OMON

Registry ID

NL-OMON23878

Enrollment

120

Registered

2018-10-31

Start date

2018-11-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2024-02-28

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Conditions

Health Illiteracy, COPD, Health Literacy, Lung disease, Asthma

Interventions

Not applicable, observational study

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Patients were considered eligible when diagnosed with chronic lung disease (defined as chronic disease of the airways and other structures of the lungs, including but not limited to: asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pulmonary hypertension, interstitial lung disease, and bronchiectasis, (WHO, 2007)), and referred for PR. Resident loved ones are defined as persons living together with a patient with chronic lung disease (Nakken et al., 2014).

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Participants were excluded when they were younger than 18, unable to speak or understand the Dutch language or were considered incapacitated.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Primary outcomes are subjective and objective health literacy as measured by the REALM-D and HLS-EU-Q16 questionnaire.	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
The following secondary outcomes were assessed as part of standard clinical routine: diagnosis, comorbidities, height, weight, body mass index (BMI), smoking behavior, sensation of dyspnea (mMRC dyspnea Scale (mMRC)), symptoms of anxiety and depression (Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS)), disease-specific health status (COPD Assessment Test (CAT)), exercise tolerance (six-minute walk distance (6MWD); cardio pulmonary exercise test (CPET); constant work rate test (CRWT)) lung function (FEV1; FVC; IC/TLC). Background characteristics included: gender, age, country of birth, social/marital status, and educational attainment level based on Verhage (1964) and the Dutch Standard Classification of Education (CBS, 2014; Hendriks et al., 2014). Moreover, previous studies suggested that a variability in health literacy can be explained by cognitive abilities. To identify patients characteristics, the Montreal Cognitive Assessment was performed among patients during the three-day baseline assessment (Levinthal et al., 2008). Finally, the degree of patients' self-managemens was assessed using a 10-point Likert scale.	—

Measure

Time frame

The following secondary outcomes were assessed as part of standard clinical routine: diagnosis, comorbidities, height, weight, body mass index (BMI), smoking behavior, sensation of dyspnea (mMRC dyspnea Scale (mMRC)), symptoms of anxiety and depression (Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS)), disease-specific health status (COPD Assessment Test (CAT)), exercise tolerance (six-minute walk distance (6MWD); cardio pulmonary exercise test (CPET); constant work rate test (CRWT)) lung function (FEV1; FVC; IC/TLC). Background characteristics included: gender, age, country of birth, social/marital status, and educational attainment level based on Verhage (1964) and the Dutch Standard Classification of Education (CBS, 2014; Hendriks et al., 2014). Moreover, previous studies suggested that a variability in health literacy can be explained by cognitive abilities. To identify patients characteristics, the Montreal Cognitive Assessment was performed among patients during the three-day baseline assessment (Levinthal et al., 2008). Finally, the degree of patients' self-managemens was assessed using a 10-point Likert scale.

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Contacts

Public ContactDaisy J.A. Janssen

Central Department of Treatment and Care Proteion Thuis

daisyjanssen@proteion.nl+31 (0)475 587538

Outcome results

None listed

Source: NL-OMON (via WHO ICTRP)