Health Literacy Impairment and Awareness of Clinical Pharmacist Services Among Geriatric Tertiary-Care…

Cross-sectionalHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)· Jun 2026

Health Literacy Impairment and Awareness of Clinical Pharmacist Services Among Geriatric Tertiary-Care Outpatients: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Rajalakshimi Vasudevan, Aziza Alshahrani, Praveen Devanandan … Lena K Alghamdi

GeriatricsCross-sectionalClinical practiceQ2IF 1.2

Over half of older outpatients have impaired health literacy across multiple domains

Health Literacy Impairment and Awareness of Clinical Pharmacist Services Among Geriatric Tertiary-Care Outpatients: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Rajalakshimi Vasudevan … Lena K Alghamdi

Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · Jun 2026

Background

Health literacy plays an important role in medication understanding, self-management, and engagement with healthcare services among older adults.

Methods

Were classified as having higher health literacy (0-2 domains impaired) or lower health literacy (3-4 domains impaired).

n = 200 participants

55.5%

Results

55.5%

most had impaired health literacy across three or more domains

n = 200 participants

More results

Lower health literacy was independently associated with older age, lower educational attainment, lower income, female sex, multimorbidity, and polypharmacy.

Awareness of clinical pharmacist services and prior exposure to pharmacist counseling were significantly lower among participants with lower health literacy.

More results

Willingness to receive pharmacist counseling was higher among participants with higher health literacy and greater awareness of pharmacist roles.

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Conclusion · 1 of 2

Health-literacy impairment is common among geriatric outpatients and is associated with medication self-management behaviors and engagement with pharmacist-led services.

Conclusion · 2 of 2

These findings highlight the relevance of functional health literacy in geriatric medication use and support further research on literacy-sensitive pharmacist-led interventions.

Health Literacy Impairment and Awareness of Clinical Pharmacist Services Among Geriatric Tertiary-Care Outpatients: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Health Literacy Impairment and Awareness of Clinical Pharmacist Services Among Geriatric Tertiary-Care Outpatients: A Cross-Sectional Study.

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