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The impact of stigma on medication adherence among patients with multimorbidity: mediation analysis of medication literacy [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
PurposeThe relationship among stigma, medication literacy and medication adherence in patients with multimorbidity is limited. This study was to explore the relationships among medication literacy, stigma, and medication adherence.Patients and ...
Chunyan Feng, Xiaojing Zhang, Menglan Shen, Rongsong Tang, Chunyan Su   +4 more
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Research on influencing factors and improvement paths of rational medication literacy among college students: a cross-sectional survey in Zhejiang province [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionRational medication use is a critical component of public health and healthcare quality. However, college students, as a key transitional population in health behavior development, exhibit varying levels of medication literacy that remain ...
Peiwen Wu, Han Fu, Biao Zhao, Mengting Zhang, Ziyu Chen, Dong He, Shucong Liu   +6 more
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Latent profiles and associated factors of medication literacy in older adult patients with chronic diseases [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundWith the global burden of chronic diseases and the acceleration of population aging, medication literacy is crucial for self-management among older adult patients.
Zhenfan Liu, Xiaoting Yan, Jing Lu, Zhitong Wang, Chuanyu Zhou, Yan Wang, Yingying Zhong, Wei Qing   +7 more
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Antibiotic literacy among Japanese medical students [PDF]

Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy, 2020
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an urgent global issue. After the AMR action plan was introduced in 2016, a study on antibiotic literacy (i.e., awareness, knowledge, and attitude relating to antimicrobial use) among clinicians and lay people was conducted in Japan. However, no studies have hitherto targeted medical students who are expected to have a
Hideharu Hagiya, Hideo Ino, Kazuki Tokumasu, Hiroko Ogawa, Tomoko Miyoshi, Kanako Ochi, Fumio Otsuka   +6 more
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Factors related to self-care drug treatment and medication adherence of elderly people in Japan

Public Health in Practice, 2021
Objectives: The number of home-dwelling elderly people who need drug treatment is increasing with the aging of the population. Elderly people are often suffering from various chronic diseases requiring treatment with multiple drugs, which makes self-care
Haruka Ueno, Hirono Ishikawa, Mio Kato, Tsuyoshi Okuhara, Hiroko Okada, Takahiro Kiuchi   +5 more
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Association between health empowerment and medication literacy among older adults with coronary heart disease after PCI: the mediating role of self-efficacy for appropriate medication use

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundWith the acceleration of global population ageing and the increasing burden of chronic diseases, the number of older adults with coronary heart disease is steadily increasing.
Yuting Fan, Yuxin Li, Xipei Chen, Xiaoli Zhong, Ping Dai, Jijun Wu, Lin He   +6 more
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Literacy, Social Stigma, and HIV Medication Adherence [PDF]

Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2008
Prior studies have linked limited literacy to poorer HIV medication adherence, although the precise causal pathways of this relationship have only been initially investigated.To examine whether social stigma is a possible mediator to the relationship between literacy and self-reported HIV medication adherence.Structured patient interviews with a ...
Katherine R, Waite, Michael, Paasche-Orlow, Lance S, Rintamaki, Terry C, Davis, Michael S, Wolf   +4 more
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Mediation effects of medication information processing and adherence on association between health literacy and quality of life

BMC Health Services Research, 2017
Background To examine whether medication related information processing defined as reading of over-the-counter drug labels, understanding prescription instructions, and information seeking—and medication adherence account for the association between ...
Sunmi Song, Seung-Mi Lee, Sunmee Jang, Yoon Jin Lee, Na-Hyun Kim, Hye-Ryoung Sohn, Dong-Churl Suh   +6 more
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Associations between self-medication, health literacy, and self-perceived health status: A community-based study

International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2015
Background: Although the frequency of self-medication has been well-documented in the public health literature, but no study has examined the relationship between health literacy and self-medication yet.
Aziz Kamran, Gholamreza Sharifirad, Yousef Shafaeei, Siamak Mohebi   +3 more
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Development and validation of a Chinese medication literacy measure

Health Expectations, 2017
AbstractBackgroundDespite the impact of medication literacy (ML) on patients’ safe use of medications, existing instruments are mostly for general health literacy measurement or designed for specific disease populations, with few specifically designed for ML.ObjectiveTo develop and validate the first Chinese medication literacy measure (ChMLM ...
Ying‐Chih Yeh, Hsiang‐Wen Lin, Elizabeth H. Chang, Yen‐Ming Huang, Yu‐Chieh Chen, Chun‐Yu Wang, Jen‐Wei Liu, Yu Ko   +7 more
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