Impact of health literacy level on aspects of medication nonadherence reported by underserved patients with type 2 diabetes

Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 187-193

  Thurston, Maria Miller ^a   Bourg, Catherine A ^b   Phillips, Beth Bryles ^b   Huston, Sally A ^c  

^a MERCER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c KECK GRADUATE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETIC PATIENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; MEMORY; MORISKY EIGHT ITEM MEDICATION ADHERENCE SCALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; TREATMENT REFUSAL; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGY; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; LANGUAGE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84923852994     PISSN: 15209156     EISSN: 15578593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/dia.2014.0220     Document Type: Article

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