ArticleInternational journal of cardiology. Cardiovascular risk and prevention2024
Health literacy in patients participating in cardiac rehabilitation: A prospective cohort study with pre-post-test design.
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- Socioeconomic variation in the relationship between cardiac rehabilitation participation and clinical outcomes: a systematic review.Open heart · 2025Pooled it
- Identifying barriers and enablers to cardiac rehabilitation participation and completion unique to South Asian individuals: a qualitative systematic review.European journal of cardiovascular nursing · 2025Pooled it
- Authors' reply: bridging the health literacy gap in cardiac rehabilitation through intervention and program design.Heart and vessels · 2026Article
- From fragmentation to empowerment: community rehabilitation care and health literacy as drivers of integrated care.Frontiers in health services · 2026Article
- Evaluating Cardiovascular Patient Support Groups: A Cross-Sectional Control-Group Questionnaire Study of Patients and Healthcare Providers.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Effect of a mHealth intervention on health literacy in patients completing cardiac rehabilitation: A randomized controlled trial with one- and five-year follow-up.International journal of cardiology. Cardiovascular risk and prevention · 2025Article
- Enhancing health literacy through cardiac rehabilitation: Insights and future directions.International journal of cardiology. Cardiovascular risk and prevention · 2025Article
- Exploring Cardiac Rehabilitation Barriers Across Health Literacy Levels.Health literacy research and practice · 2025Article
- Association between social support and life space mobility in older patients after percutaneous coronary intervention: mediating roles of health literacy and intrinsic capacity.Frontiers in public health · 2025Observational
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Abstract
Background and aims: Adherence to recommendations regarding medical treatment and healthy behaviour serve as a significant challenge for patients experiencing a cardiac event. Optimizing the patients' health literacy (HL) may be crucial to meet this challenge and has gained increased focus the last decade. Despite cardiac rehabilitation (CR) being a central part of the treatment of patients experiencing a cardiac event, such programs have not been evaluated regarding HL. Therefore, the aim of this study was to describe and evaluate HL in patients participating in CR. Methods: A prospective cohort study with pre-post-test design of patients participating in CR. Data were collected at program admission and completion (August 2017-June 2018). Patients from three different CR-programs were included. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied to describe and evaluate HL and change in HL across categories of demographical variables and type of rehabilitation. Results: In total, 113 patients attending CR were included. A statistically significant increase in HL was observed from pre-to post-CR (mean change: 2.24 ± 3.68 ( Conclusions: Participation in CR statistically significantly improves HL. Overall, judging health information was found as the most difficult aspect of HL, both at pre- and post-CR. This should be emphasized in secondary prevention to overcome barriers related to adherence to medical treatment and healthy behaviour.
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