Effects of Health Literacy Promotion Program on Medication Adherence in Thai Ageing
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This Quasi-experimental, two groups, pre-posttest research aimed to study the effects of health literacy program on medication adherence in Thai ageing. Thai ageing who had non-communicable diseases from outpatient department at Amphawa Hospital, were randomly assigned to the intervention group (n = 35) and the control group (n = 30). Experimental group receive health literacy program. The research instruments included the 8 - item Morisky medication adherence scale, Brief Medication Questionnaire (Thai version), had a reliability of .75. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and t-test.
The findings revealed that 1) 88.57% of participants in experimental group had moderate to high medication adherence, indicating no difference compared to control group 2) To compare between groups, it was found that the mean score of the experimental group after the trial ( = 6.88, S.D = 1.02) was higher than baseline (
= 6.47, S.D = 1.45) 3) the mean scores for medication adherence among the ageing between the experimental group and the control group after the experiment, it was found that the mean scores for medication adherence were not significantly different at the .05 level. Health literacy promotion program on medication adherence in ageing can promote medication adherence in which ageing had more likely to adhere their medication. However, the duration of the study should be increased in conjunction with individualized advice from a healthcare professional.
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