Chiharu Nishijima, Kenji Harada, Osamu Katayama, Satoshi Kurita, Masanori Morikawa, Ryo Yamaguchi, Kazuya Fujii, Yuka Misu, Daisuke Kakita, Hiroyuki Shimada
Association between perceived value of adopting new behaviors and incident disability among Japanese community-dwelling older adults
Preventive medicine
background occurrence adverse drug reactions chemotherapy among cancer patients welldocumented phenomenon however understanding contributoring factors influence severity adverse drug reactions incomplete without psychosocial factors affecting objective present study done understand factors like health literacy cognition levels association severity adverse drug reactions cancer chemotherapy setting study done department medical oncology tertiary care hospital india method two hundred twentyfour patients meeting study inclusion exclusion criteria took part study details adverse drug reactions collected per central drugs standard control organization format severity adverse drug reactions assessed national cancer institute common terminology criteria adverse events version 50 health literacy cognition levels patients assessed using standardized questionnaires ie short test functional health literacy adults short portable mental status questionnaire respectively data anonymized analyzed using statistical package social sciences version 160 software pearsons chi square test p value 005 considered statistically significant used study associations main outcome measure associations health literacy cognition levels severity adverse drug reactions result found health literacy cognition levels statistically significant association grade 3 adverse drug reactions cancer patients receiving chemotherapy conclusion initial assessment health literacy cognition levels cancer patients cancer care providers help identify patients high risk developing severe adverse drug reactions interventional measures improving health literacy healthcare providers help reduce overall burden disease patient due adverse drug reactions