The effect of health literacy intervention on adherence to medication of uncontrolled hypertensive patients using the M-health

Table 2 The comparison of the mean and standard deviation of the investigated variables before and after the intervention

Outcome variables/Groups	Health literacy(reading) (mean ± SD)		P-value**	Health literacy (comprehension and understanding) (mean ± SD)		P-value**	Health literacy (decision-making) (mean ± SD)		P-value**	Adherence to medication (mean ± SD)		P-value**	Systolic BP (mean ± SD)		P-value**	Diastolic BP (mean ± SD)		P-value**
Outcome variables/Groups	Before	After	P-value**	Before	After	P-value**	Before	After	P-value**	Before	After	P-value**	Before	After	P-value**	Before	After	P-value**
Intervention (n = 59)	25.17 ± 3.30	26.89 ± 1.68	< 0.0001	3.32 ± 1.99	5.1± 0.99	< 0.0001	4.48 ± 2.0	6.56 ± 0.79	< 0.0001	7.90 ± 1.82	10.3 ± 0.81	< 0.0001	149.83 ± 17.46	148.98 ± 16.47	0.024	107.29 ± 99.11	107.80 ± 99.06	0.083
Control (n = 59)	24.40 ± 6.60	24.45 ± 6.57	0.8	3.25 ± 2.02	3.28 ± 2.03	0.78	5.49 ± 1.63	5.52 ± 1.65	0.68	8.19 ± 1.93	7.95 ± 1.88	0.01	146.31 ± 9.47	146.61 ± 9.57	0.70	95.57 ± 7.48	95.59 ± 7.49	0.86
P-value*	0.42	< 0.0001		0.85	< 0.0001		0.058	< 0.0001		0.41	< 0.0001		0.21	0.31		< 0.0001	< 0.0001

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