Pilot Study of ILIADE : Exploring Health Literacy Within Patients Hospitalized for Acute Cardiovascular Events

NCT ID: NCT03949309

Last Updated: 2021-06-22

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 209 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2019-06-24
• Study Completion Date: 2019-12-12

Brief Summary

Health literacy (HL) is the ability to access, understand, evaluate and apply information in order to communicate with health professionals and understand health instructions but also, promote, maintain and improve health throughout life. Health literacy is known as a health determinant. An association has been shown between low health literacy and low health outcomes such as increased number of unscheduled hospitalization or emergency visits, low medication adherence and poor health status.

These have been particularly demonstrated with cardiovascular diseases, which combine risk factors (emergency hospitalization, reduction in the length of hospital stays, and complex secondary preventive drug treatments). Despite many scientific international literature about health literacy and health outcomes, no information is available in France on the prevalence of low health literacy level of patients, notably cardiovascular patients. The investigating team's hypothesis is that knowing the prevalence of low HL levels in cardiovascular patients would help to better tailored a communication intervention dedicated to the needs of these low-HL patients with the final aim of increasing their adhesion to preventive drugs and behavioural recommendations.

The first aim of the present study is to estimate the prevalence of low HL level among patients discharged after acute myocardial infarction or acute decompensation of chronic heart failure. Secondary aims are to assess factors associated with the level of HL and identify barriers and facilitators of low HL patients to understand medical information on their disease. The results of this study will guide the design of the intervention of an interventional study on HL of cardiovascular patients.

Conditions

Acute Myocardial Infarction; Chronic Heart Failure

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

Eligible patients

All eligible patients discharged from hospital for Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) or acute decompensation of Chronic Heart Failure (CHF)

Exploring health literacy levels and patients' informal needs or individual relationship between caregivers and patients.

Intervention Type: OTHER

It is a cross-sectional study coupled with a qualitative ancillary study conducted within patients hospitalized for one of the two acute cardiovascular diseases (acute coronary syndrome or acute heart failure). All patients hospitalized at Hospices Civils de Lyon for one of these two diseases and whom are going back home will be enrolled. Few patients will be interviewed during the follow-up visit at 1-month post hospitalisation. Caregivers from cardiology units will also be interviewed.

Interventions

Exploring health literacy levels and patients' informal needs or individual relationship between caregivers and patients.

It is a cross-sectional study coupled with a qualitative ancillary study conducted within patients hospitalized for one of the two acute cardiovascular diseases (acute coronary syndrome or acute heart failure). All patients hospitalized at Hospices Civils de Lyon for one of these two diseases and whom are going back home will be enrolled. Few patients will be interviewed during the follow-up visit at 1-month post hospitalisation. Caregivers from cardiology units will also be interviewed.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Patient

• Age greater than or equal to 18 years
• Hospitalization for Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) (myocardial infarction with or without ST segment elevation) or acute attack of heart failure (systolic or diastolic)
• Able to communicate in French and/or helping to communicate in French
• Return home after hospitalization

Health professional

• Voluntary and available for the entire interview
• Having participated in the management of the patient screened on the day of the consultation
• Cardiologist, intern or emergency department nurse
• Attached to the participating service

Exclusion Criteria

• Patient

• Short-term vital prognosis
• Severe dementia
• Inability to manage drug treatment alone
• Institutionalization at the end of hospitalization

Health professional

• Health professional working in the department only one or two days a week
• Health professional who is not specialized in diseases of interest

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Hospices Civils de Lyon

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Anne-Marie SCHOTT, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Hospices Civils de Lyon

Julie HAESEBAERT, MD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Hospices Civils de Lyon

Locations

Groupement Hospitalier Est

Bron, , France

Countries

France

References

Perrin A, Damiolini E, Schott AM, Zermati J, Bravant E, Delahaye F, Dima AL, Haesebaert J. Considering health literacy in cardiovascular disease management: a qualitative study on healthcare professionals' and patients' perspectives. BMC Health Serv Res. 2022 Sep 5;22(1):1121. doi: 10.1186/s12913-022-08455-8.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 36064395 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

2019-A00799-48

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

69HCL19_0207

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id