Association of health literacy and medication adherence with health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with ischemic heart disease

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Saman Younas¹  Muhammad Islam¹  Hamid Saeed¹  Furqan Khurshid Hashmi¹  Muzna Suhail¹  Imran Imran²  Fawad Rasool³  Zikria Saleem⁴ 

[1] Department of Pharmaceutics, University College of Pharmacy, Universality of the Punjab, Allama Iqbal Campus, 54000, Lahore, Pakistan;Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan;Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan;Department of Pharmacy, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan;

关键词: Medication adherence;    Health literacy;    HRQoL;    Ischemic heart disease;    Lahore;    Pakistan;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12955-021-01761-5

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundMedication Adherence (MA) and Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) are two inter-connected concepts, co-influenced by Health Literacy (HL), with significant impact on patient management and care. Thus, we aimed to estimate the association of HL and MA with HRQoL in IHD patients.MethodsCross-sectional study of 251 IHD patients recruited from Lahore over 6 months period. HL, MA and HRQoL was assessed using validated questionnaires; 16-items of HL, Morisky Green Levine Scale (MGLS) and SF-12, respectively. Chi-square for significance, logistic-regression for association and linear regression for predictions were used.ResultsIHD patients; males (p = 0.0001), having secondary—higher education (p = 0.0001), middle/upper class (p = 0.0001) and employed (p = 0.005) had adequate HL, and were more likely to be adherent (OR; 4.3, p = 0.014). Both physical (PCS-12) and mental (MCS-12) component scores of HRQoL for age, gender, education, area of residence, employment and MA were significantly higher in patients with adequate HL. In multinomial regression, improved PCS-12 scores tend to be higher in subjects having secondary—higher education (OR; 3.5, p = 0.067), employed (OR; 6.1, p = 0.002) and adherent (OR; 2.95, p = 0.218), while MCS-12 scores tend to be higher in patients < 65 years (OR; 2.2, p = 0.032), employed (OR; 3, p = 0.002) and adherent (OR; 4, p = 0.004). In adjusted model, HL (β;0.383, p = 0.0001) and MA (β; − 0.133, p = 0.018) were significantly associated with PCS-12, and MCS-12 with MA (β; − 0.161, p = 0.009) only.ConclusionData suggested that adequate HL was significantly associated with adherence and both physical and mental dimensions of HRQoL were higher in IHD patients with adequate HL. Besides, HL and MA are independent predictors of HRQoL in IHD patients.

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