Pharmacists' recognition, support strategies, and perceived challenges in caring for patients with limited medication literacy in Saudi Arabia: A quasi-experimental study [PDF]
Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social PharmacyIntroduction: Medication literacy is critical for safe and effective medication use; however, evidence indicates that many individuals in Saudi Arabia struggle to understand medication-related information.
Faten Alhomoud
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Medication literacy among community-dwelling older adults in Shenzhen: a 2024 cross-sectional survey with psychometric evidence [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthObjectiveTo provide a scientific basis for policymakers and healthcare providers in developing targeted interventions, we investigated the level of medication literacy and its contributing factors among the older population in Shenzhen.MethodsA cross ...
Fenfang Wei +8 more
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Medication Literacy in a Cohort of Chinese Patients Discharged With Essential Hypertension [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2020 Background: In recent years, research on medication literacy has increased in many countries. Medication literacy in patients with essential hypertension affects the management and prognosis of hypertension.Method: This is a cross-sectional study of 147 ...
Zhuqing Zhong +8 more
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Think Before You Take: Understanding Adult Medication Literacy in Saudi Arabia [PDF]
Patient Preference and AdherenceFaten Alhomoud,1 Walaa Alsaeed,1 Fatimah Alzainaldain,1 Kawthar Alelq,1 Farah Kais Alhomoud,1 Khalid A Alamer,1 Mohammed M Alsultan,1 Yousef Saeed Alqarni,1 Bashayer Alshehail,1 Abdullah A Alhifany2 1Department of Pharmacy Practice, College of Pharmacy ...
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Medication Literacy for Pharmacists: A Review [PDF]
Jurnal Manajemen dan Pelayanan Farmasi, 2019 The term health literacy has been emerging since the last decades. Poor health literacy had been realized as a main factor for poor health outcomes, higher medical costs, greater risk of death, and poor health status. With the health care system becoming
Niken Nur Widyakusuma +2 more
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Impact of the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model Based Medication Literacy Intervention on Medication Self-Management Capacity in Stroke Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial [PDF]
Patient Preference and AdherenceLinlin Ma,1,2,* Zhimin Liu,3,* Xueru Chen,2 Qian Zhang,2 Tianyu Chu,2 Xian Chen,2 Jiajia Zhang,2 Renjuan Sun,1 Yibo Wu4 1Department of Neurology, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangnan University, Wuxi, People’s Republic of China; 2Wuxi School ...
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Health Literacy and Medication Adherence in Fibromyalgia [PDF]
European Health Literacy Journal, 2021 Aim: Patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) are reported to be 3 times more likely to use health care services compared to the general population, 4 times more likely to go to the doctor, have 4 times more drug use and 2.5 times more pain-related expenditures.
ALTAN İNCEOĞLU, LALE +5 more
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Literacy Medication Labels [PDF]
Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2009 To the Editor:—In reference to a recent study titled: “Improving patient understanding of prescription drug label instructions”1 by Davis and colleagues, published online, we would like to emphasize the importance of the findings in this article and share the results of a pilot study we conducted in California in 2001–2002 on the inclusion of ...
Amir H. Zargarzadeh, Anandi V. Law
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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 +6 more
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Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2020 Background: Medication literacy may be associated with medication safety, and medication adherence is critical in treating coronary heart disease. Few studies have explored the association between medication literacy and medication adherence in patients ...
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