NCT02606175

Medication Knowledge, Medication Adherence and Health Literacy in Patients Who Underwent a Kidney Transplantation.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Patients who receive a kidney transplant have to learn in 10-14 days which anti-rejection medication to take, how to take it ,... This learning process is attended by the nurses of the ward. This study wants to measure the degree of medication knowledge, health literacy and medication adherence of those patients.

Detailed description

Patients who receive a kidney transplant arrive at the abdominal transplantation surgery ward after surgery. Within 10-14 days they learn which anti-rejection medication they have to take, how they have to take it and to what they have to pay attention. This learning process is attended by the nurses of the ward. It is already known that a bad medication adherence is related to a higher rejection rate and mortality of patients who receive a kidney transplant. Bad medication knowledge and low health literacy are correlated with a bad medication adherence. Data about the level of health literacy of the Belgian population (and certainly of patients who just received a kidney transplant) are scarce. The main purpose of this study is to have an idea of the extent of medication knowledge, heath literacy and adherence in patients who received a renal transplant. Therefore, a prospective cohort study will be performed. Adult patients admitted for a renal transplantation, will be included after obtainment of informed consent. The patients will be followed for 2 years. On predefined time points, the participants will have to fill in questionnaires and tests: on discharge 2 tests that measure health literacy, the "Basel Assessment of Adherence to Immunosuppressive Medications Scale" (BAASIS), the medication knowledge test and a questionnaire about demographic factors. At 1 month post-transplantation the BAASIS test and medication knowledge test, 3 months post-transplantation the 2 tests assessing health literacy, the BAASIS test and medication knowledge test and finally after 1 and 2 years all the tests (4 in total) and questionnaire assessing demographic factors

Conditions

• Adherence to Medication Regime

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Taking questionnaires and tests	At predefined timepoints: * 2 tests for health literacy: New Vital Sign-Dutch version (NVS-D) and Functional, Communicative and Critical Health Literacy (FCCHL) * 1 test for medication adherence: BAASIS * 1 questionnaire about demographic factors (weight, income, sex, age, financial situation,...) * 1 test about medication knowledge

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-02-01
• Primary completion: 2019-02-01
• Completion: 2019-11-01
• First posted: 2015-11-17
• Last updated: 2021-05-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium