Table 3. – Information needs specific to educational topics that can help patients adhere to healthy behaviors (n=159).
| Educational topic | Mean score overall (mean±SD) | Mean score by health literacy level (mean±SD) | p* | ||
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| Limited (n=87) | Marginal (n=56) | Adequate (n=15) | |||
| Create a plan for change Description: learn how to motivated oneself to live a healthy life and how to create a plan for change that will help you to reach this goal. | 4.49±0.56 | 4.48±0.53 | 4.59±0.53 | 4.25±0.45 | 0.10 |
| Start an aerobic exercise program Description: learn what aerobic exercise is, how to plan for exercise, the benefits of aerobic exercise and how to exercise safely. | 4.64±0.50 | 4.60±0.49 | 4.71±0.50 | 4.64±0.50 | 0.43 |
| Start a resistance training program Description: learn what resistance training is and its benefits and how to do resistance training safely. | 4.12±0.88 | 4.12±0.91 | 4.27±0.80 | 3.57±0.94 | 0.03 |
| Sit less and move more Description: learn how sitting too much affects your health and what are the ways to sit less during the day. | 4.44±0.61 | 4.39±0.65 | 4.50±0.57 | 4.43±0.51 | 0.59 |
| Choose healthy foods Description: learn what types of foods can improve your heart health and how to use a nutrition facts table to choose healthy foods. | 4.65±0.55 | 4.61±0.54 | 4.76±0.54 | 4.60±0.51 | 0.22 |
| Develop a healthy relationship with food Description: learn the importance of paying attention to flavor, texture, and your surroundings when you eat and what are the ways to eat with more pleasure and know when you are full. | 4.57±0.55 | 4.57±0.50 | 4.69±0.47 | 4.20±0.51 | 0.007 |
| Eat the Mediterranean diet Description: Learn what foods to include in a heart healthy eating pattern and how to include more whole foods in your eating. | 4.56±0.59 | 4.54±0.57 | 4.60±0.63 | 4.64±0.50 | 0.73 |
| Take medicines Description: learn what are the common classes of heart medicines, how they help you and who can help you manage side effects and answer your questions. | 4.77±0.44 | 4.74±0.47 | 4.85±0.36 | 4.67±0.49 | 0.18 |
| Manage depression, stress, and burnout Description: learn what depression, stress, and burnout are, and what techniques you can try to help you feel in charge of your health. | 4.52±0.59 | 4.54±0.59 | 4.57±0.54 | 4.13±0.74 | 0.03 |
| Sleep well Description: learn what might be stopping you from sleeping well and what are the signs of sleep apnea. | 4.57±0.67 | 4.53±0.78 | 4.65±0.52 | 4.40±0.51 | 0.35 |
| Strengthen social relationships Description: learn how social relationships can improve your health, how heart disease can affect sex and intimacy, and what techniques are available to create healthy relationships. | 4.30±0.76 | 4.31±0.74 | 4.36±0.78 | 4.14±0.77 | 0.62 |
| Choose health everyday Description: learn how to maintain your healthy habits and what to do if you stop your healthy habit. | 4.62±0.53 | 4.61±0.54 | 4.70±0.46 | 4.47±0.52 | 0.25 |
| Total | 4.53±0.36 | 4.51±0.37 | 4.63±0.31 | 4.29±0.36 | 0.01 |
SD: standard deviation. *ANOVA One-Way (p<0.05). Likert-type scores ranged from 1=poor to 5=excellent.