Health beliefs and desire to improve cholesterol levels among patients with hyperlipidemia

Zullig, LL., Sanders, LL., Thomas, S., Brown, JN., Danus, S., McCant, F., & Bosworth, HB. (2016). Health beliefs and desire to improve cholesterol levels among patients with hyperlipidemia. Patient Education and Counseling, 99(5), 830-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2015.11.025

Abstract

The factors most significantly associated with desire to improve cholesterol control were perceiving hyperlipidemia as 'very serious and self-efficacy for cholesterol control. Educating patients, with the goal of appropriately increasing their perceived risk of disease, is likely necessary to impact cholesterol control.

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