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NCT Number: NCT04189380

Therapeutic Literacy Evaluation in Liver Transplanted Patients

Health literacy is a new concept in therapeutic patient education. Health Literacy has been defined as the cognitive and social skills which determine the motivation and ability of individuals to gain access to, understand and use information in ways which promote and maintain good health. Health literacy seems predictive of adherence 's patients to treatment or positive health behavior.

Liver transplanted patients need to modify their lifestyle and to perform new behaviors in order to improve their survival and their quality of life. Health literacy evaluation in these patients is necessary to know what they understand and to improve their intake.

The Aim of the study is to evaluate health literacy among liver transplanted patient and to perform liver transplanted patient profiles related to their own health literacy.

The second aim is to study the impact of health literacy on medication adherence and iatrogenic hospitalizations It is a monocentric non-randomized study. During the hepatologist consultation, the HLQ Health Literacy Questionnaire is performed to explore patient health understanding and perception. Then the pharmacist interviews the patient to explore motivations and brakes for their own healthcare; Furthermore, a cognitive and precarity evaluation is performed in order to analyze psychological or social factors which can influence health literacy.

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Key information

Conditions

Health Literacy Liver Transplantation

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Chu Clermont Ferrand

Clermont-Ferrand, 63003, France

About this study

Tests performed:

  • Health Literacy Questionnaire: HLQ
  • Montreal Cognitive Evaluation Assessment: MoCA
  • EPICES: precarity test validated in French
  • A qualitative interview

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Adult patient > 18 years
  • Liver transplanted patient > 1 year at the start of the study
  • patient who are followed-up by an hepatologist in the center
  • patient who understands and speaks French

Exclusion criteria

  • patient not yet liver transplanted (on the waiting-list)
  • patient who has not come back home yet
  • patient who does not speak or understand French
  • patient refusal to participate
  • patient under supervision or guardianship

Treatment and study plan

HLQ (Health literacy questionnaire)

Other

each patient complete survey and self-assessment questionnaire before or after his medical consultation

MoCA (Montreal Cognitive Assessment)

Other

each patient complete survey and self-assessment questionnaire before or after his medical consultation

Primary outcomes

  1. health literacy questionnaire

    Time frame: day 1

    a survey in 2 parts. Each part contains about twenty questions with Likert scale

Secondary outcomes

  1. MoCA questionnaire

    Time frame: day 1

    evaluation of cognitive assessment and detection mild cognitive dysfunction at the consultation

  2. EPICES questionnaire

    Time frame: day 1

    auto-evaluation of social and economic status

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand

Other

Registry information

Acronym: THELEHEPAT

Important dates

Study start
2019
Primary completion
2019
Study completion
2019
First posted
Dec 6, 2019
Registry last updated
Dec 14, 2020

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