Knowledge and practice of home blood pressure monitoring 6 months after the risk and assessment management programme: does health literacy matter?
Conclusion
Patients could retain HBPM knowledge better after RAMP-group than RAMP-individual. Older, retired and patients with adequate health literacy were more likely to continue weekly HBPM 6 months after education.
Trial registration number
NCT02551393.
Source: Postgraduate Medical Journal - Category: General Medicine Authors: FU, S. N., Dao, M. C., Wong, C. K. H., Cheung, B. M. Y. Tags: Open access Original research Source Type: research
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