Heterogeneous Distribution of Health Literacy and Emotional State on Patients With Functional Dyspepsia.

March 1, 2017 updated by: Ming-Shun Wu, Taipei Medical University WanFang Hospital
Patients with indigestion were often found in gastroenterology clinic, those who about 20 % was caused by organic, while the rest of patients are showed abnormal inspection, and these are so called functional dyspepsia. Functional dyspepsia is a chronic and repeated occurrence of digestive disorders, patients often visit hospitals frequently and unable to get fully cured. Current Symptom diagnoses are based on Rome III criteria as diagnostic criteria. Although functional dyspepsia condition should combine with physical and mental treatments, due to the reasons behind the complex, there is still no effective classification could be acted in health education and drug intervention.

Study Overview

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Detailed Description

Health literacy can be defined as "ability for obtaining basic health information and understanding medical services." Within 10 years, healthy development and application of knowledge used in medical care and public health fields that have raised more attentions, many European countries set health knowledge as one of the main indicators for health care policy in the future. To promote behavior of self-care health for people, enhance the effective use of medical service , also reduce health care cost and unequally medical information.

Anxiety and depression are two common reactions when it comes to negative emotional states, which related to a body and caused a vicious cycle of disease. Some patients suffer from functional dyspepsia symptoms were diagnosed with anxiety or depression symptoms often ignore body care due to lack of health literacy. The purpose of this study is to investigate the distribution of functional dyspepsia patients with health literacy and emotional status, in order to provide more effective health education mode, thereby reducing the waste of medical resources, and promote patient health.

Study Type

Observational

Enrollment (Anticipated)

100

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Contact

Study Locations

      • Taipei, Taiwan, 116
        • Recruiting
        • WanFangH
        • Contact:

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

20 years to 80 years (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Sampling Method

Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Patients diagnosed with functional dyspepsia , can Self-reading and the self-administered questionnaire.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Patients diagnosed with functional dyspepsia , can Self-reading and the self-administered questionnaire.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Due to physical illness, cognitive ability is limited and other factors can not were completed self-administered questionnaires.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Symptom diagnoses are based on Rome III criteria as diagnostic criteria
Time Frame: up to 10 months to collect data and perform an analysis
up to 10 months to collect data and perform an analysis

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Investigators

  • Study Chair: Ming Shun Wu, Dr, Taipei Medical University WanFang Hospital

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start

May 1, 2016

Primary Completion (Anticipated)

January 1, 2018

Study Completion (Anticipated)

February 1, 2018

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

March 17, 2016

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 13, 2016

First Posted (Estimate)

April 14, 2016

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

March 3, 2017

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 1, 2017

Last Verified

March 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • N201601022

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

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