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Is e-Health literacy associated with treatment compliance in patients with hypertension?
e-Health literacy is not directly associated with treatment compliance in hypertension patients, as the relationship is shaped by mediating variables such as age and education.
Aim: This study aimed to examine the relationship between e-Health literacy and treatment compliance among patients with hypertension.Materials and Methods: This descriptive and correlational study was conducted between July and December 2024 with hypertension patients enrolled in the family medicine training unit within a primary healthcare center. Data were collected using a descriptive information form, the e-Health Literacy Scale, and the Hill-Bone compliance to high blood pressure therapy scale. Correlation was analyzed using the Spearman correlation test. Statistical significance was set at p0.05.Results: The e-Health literacy total score of the 115 hypertension patients included in the study was 38.8±8.1, while the treatment compliance total score was 3 5. e-Health literacy levels were higher among high school and university graduates and decreased with age (p=0.001, p=0.001, respectively). The average age of patients fully compliant with hypertension treatment was higher (p0.002). Treatment compliance was better in patients with diabetes and psychiatric illnesses (p=0.007, p=0.048, respectively) and higher in patients who restricted salt, exercised, and monitored blood pressure regularly (p0.001, p0.001, p=0.029, respectively). e-Health literacy was not found to be associated with compliance with hypertension treatment (p=0.829).Conclusions: Our study findings indicate that the relationship between e-Health literacy and treatment compliance in patients with hypertension is not direct and significant. Mediating variables such as age, education level, source of information, and health behaviors shape this relationship.
Toraman et al. (2026) studied this question. The provided text consists of the ICMJE recommendations for the conduct and publication of scholarly work in medical journals and contains no clinical study data.