Digital health literacy and its determinants among community dwelling elderly people in Taiwan.

Background: Digital Health Literacy (DHL) is crucial in navigating digital health environments, yet few studies focus on older adults.

Objective: Explore the associations of digital health information and resource utilization, IT-related social support, and barriers/enhancers to digital health service usage with DHL among older adults.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted from January 2022 to April 2023, involving 417 individuals over the age of 60 who were interviewed using an instrument for collecting data on DHL, social support, barriers/enhancers influencing use of digital health resources and personal/demographic data.

Personalized Intervention to Improve Medication Adherence for Persons with Multiple Sclerosis.

Purpose: To evaluate the acceptability, retention, and efficacy of face-to-face intervention, incorporating education and Motivational Interviewing (MI) to support persons with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (PwRRMS) and increase self-reported medication adherence.

Patients And Methods: PwRRMS (N = 60) prescribed Disease Modifying Treatment (DMT), who were identified as non-adherent and consented to participate in an intervention, received verbal education and counseling from their treating physician, a tailored MI counseling and a booster session via telephone with a health psychologist, and a concluding MI counseling six months later. Each PwRRMS filled a battery of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) at baseline, six and 12 months later.

Reducing intervention- and research-induced inequalities to tackle the digital divide in health promotion.

Social inequalities are an important contributor to the global burden of disease within and between countries. Using digital technology in health promotion and healthcare is seen by some as a potential lever to reduce these inequalities; however, research suggests that digital technology risks re-enacting or evening widening disparities. Most research on this digital health divide focuses on a small number of social inequality indicators and stems from Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) countries.

Using an Intervention Mapping Approach to Improve Adherence to Disease-Modifying Treatment in Multiple Sclerosis.

Background: Up to 50% of individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) who are prescribed disease-modifying treatments (DMTs) do not take them as advised. Although many studies report on DMT adherence rate, few studies report on interventions involving individuals with MS. The current paper describes the development of an intervention aimed at improving adherence to DMTs among identified nonadherent individuals with MS.