Education, literacy, and health: Mediating effects on hypertension knowledge and control

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 381-385

  Pandit, Anjali U ^a   Tang, Joyce W ^a   Bailey, Stacy Cooper ^a   Davis, Terry C ^b   Bocchini, Mary V ^b   Persell, Stephen D ^a   Federman, Alex D ^c   Wolf, Michael S ^a,d  

^a Division of General Internal Medicine   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure control; Education; Health literacy; Hypertension knowledge

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE CONTROL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEW; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MOTIVATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 67349231571     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2009.04.006     Document Type: Article

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