Lisa Korsbakke Emtekær Hæsum|Lars Holger Ehlers|Ole Hejlesen
Interaction between functional health literacy and telehomecare: Short?term effects from a randomized trial
Aalborg University|Aalborg University|Aalborg University|UiT The Arctic University of Norway
study conducted part randomized controlled trial explored whether introduction danish telehomecare intervention referred telekit associated educational components affect functional health literacy study sample consisted 60 chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients intervention group received telekit 56 control group participants collected largescale randomized telecare north trial consecutive sampling avoid recall bias design include baseline measurement comparing instead postintervention measurements intervention control groups first comparability two groups determined statistically significant differences functional health literacy scores examined using independent ttest furthermore associations functional health literacy groups tested using multiple regression analysis statistically significant difference observed intervention control groups suggesting introduction telekit associated educational components effect functional health literacy however research conducted using larger sample