ArticleJournal of general internal medicine2021
Health Literacy, Processing Capacity, Illness Knowledge, and Actionable Memory for Medication Taking in Type 2 Diabetes: Cross-Sectional Analysis.
Article in Journal of general internal medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01296633 (Medtable), which is not on this map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Medtable: An Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Strategy to Promote Patient Medication Understanding and Use
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- Health literacy training for older adults: a systematic review with meta-analysis.BMC geriatrics · 2026Pooled it
- A Descriptive Analysis of Cancer Screening Health Literacy Among Black Women Living with HIV in Baltimore, Maryland.Health literacy research and practice · 2022Trial
- Construction of Customized Personas for Decision-Making Cognition Regarding Oral Microbiota Transplantation in Head and Neck Cancer Patients Undergoing Radiotherapy: A Qualitative Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Metamemory and Emotional Contributions to the Relationship Between Cognitive Function and Medication Adherence in H-Type Hypertension: A Cross-Sectional Mediation Analysis.Patient preference and adherence · 2026Article
- Determinants of selective domains of cognitive impairment among diabetes mellitus patients: a primary health care setting-based study in India.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or type 2 diabetes in Greenland - a qualitative interpretive description study.International journal of circumpolar health · 2024Article
- Patients' knowledge of the indications for their medications - a scoping review.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Tools to measure barriers to medication management capacity in older adults: a scoping review.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Sarcopenia as Comorbid Chronic Diseases in Older Adults: Established and Emerging Treatments and Therapies.Diabetes & metabolism journal · 2023Review
- Changes in the health literacy of residents aged 15-69 years in central China: A three-round cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Questionnaire and LGBM Model for Assessing Health Literacy levels of Mongolians in China.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Assessing COVID-19 Health Literacy (CoHL) and its relationships with sociodemographic features, locus of control and compliance with social distancing rules during the first lockdown in France.Health education research · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundPatient knowledge about the purpose of medications is crucial to ensure safe and correct use, so it is an important index of adherence in patients with chronic illness.
objectiveWe examined how health literacy and its components (processing capacity and knowledge about illness) influence memory for medication purposes.
designWe conducted a cross-sectional study to examine memory for medication purposes in relation to health literacy, processing capacity, and illness knowledge among patients with diabetes in outpatient clinics.
participantsSix hundred seventy-four adults who were diagnosed with type II diabetes mellitus, age 40 years or older, taking 5 or more current medications, native speakers of English, and with glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) of 6.0 or more, were recruited to the study. MAIN MEASURES: We included measures of processing capacity, illness knowledge, health literacy, and actionable memory for medication taking (memory for medication purpose). KEY
resultsResults suggested an association between health literacy and both processing capacity and health knowledge, with some evidence that knowledge can compensate for limited processing capacity in order to maintain health literacy. Furthermore, health literacy was associated with memory for medication purposes, with processing capacity and health knowledge partly mediating this association. This pattern of results supports the process-knowledge model of health literacy.
conclusionsOur findings establish the role of health literacy in medication taking, in relation to broader cognitive abilities and knowledge. Implications for improving the learning of medication purpose among diverse older adults with chronic illness are discussed.
trial registrationNIH trial registry number: NCT01296633.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.