NCT03216603

Health Literacy in People With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Health Literacy. An Intervention on Organized Information and Health Care for People With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 130 (actual)
• Sponsor: Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Health literacy refers to personal and relational factors affecting a person's ability to acquire, understand and use information about health and health services. In a need assessment study it was found that, the health services need to focus on health literacy factors in the follow up of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Thus, this project evaluate the effect a of a health literacy partnership health promotion intervention (hospital, municipalities, university) after discharge from hospital with the use of motivational interviewing and tailored follow-ups on re-admission, health literacy, self-management quality of life and cost in people with COPD compared with usual care.

Conditions

• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Health literacy intervention group	In the health literacy intervention group all patients will receive self-management help using a motivating interviewing (MI) technique delivered by two MI and COPD trained nurses once a week for eight weeks after hospitalization. Subsequently, the contact between the patients and the nurses will be by follow up motivational telephone calls once a month or more if needed for four months (i.a a total of six months intervention period).

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-11-01
• Primary completion: 2020-12-31
• Completion: 2020-12-31
• First posted: 2017-07-13
• Last updated: 2021-12-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway