Effectiveness of Health Literacy Enhancement Program Among Older Persons With Physical Multimorbidity

NCT06313138 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 140

Last updated 2024-03-15

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Summary

The study aims to examine the effectiveness of individual and family health literacy enhancement program among older persons with physical multimorbidity.

Specific objectives are:

1. To compare self-management, treatment burden, and symptom burden of older persons with physical multimorbidity between before and after receiving the individual and family health literacy enhancement program.
2. To compare self-management, treatment burden, and symptom burden of older persons with physical multimorbidity between those receiving the individual and family health literacy enhancement program and those receiving usual care.

Participants in the control group will receive usual care by physician and nurses during the experimental period. The usual care consists of physical examination, regular treatment protocol, patient education and telephone follow-up by community nurses.

Participants in the interventional group will receive the program which is a group-based intervention developed by the researcher based on the Individual and Family Self-Management Theory (IFSMT) (self-management skills) and the principle of Medagogy (PITS model: Pathophysiology, Indications, Treatments, Specifies) to improve patients' and their families' understanding of disease-related information and self-management skills consisting of goal setting and action plan, self-monitoring, solving problems and decision-making, and emotional control.The program will be divided into 8 sessions. Each session will be lasted for 2 hours with 1 intermittent break (10 minutes), and it will be held twice a week, and the last session will be held 1 week after the 7th session. Therefore, it will last for 5 weeks in total.

Conditions

  • Multiple Chronic Conditions;Diabetes;Hypertension

Interventions

OTHER

The Individual and Family Enhancement Program

The program is a group-based intervention which will be developed by the researcher based on the Individual and Family Self-Management Theory (IFSMT) (self-management skills) and the principle of Medagogy (PITS model: Pathophysiology, Indications, Treatments, Specifies) to improve patients' and their families' understanding of disease-related information and self-management skills consisting of goal setting and action plan, self-monitoring, solving problems and decision-making, and emotional control.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Chiang Mai University

    collaborator OTHER
  • Nantong University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jun Shan · Nantong University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-07-15
Primary Completion
2023-12-25
Completion
2024-01-30

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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