LEP patients have lower medication-related self-efficacy than English-proficient patients, a modifiable adherence risk

Narrative synthesis #

The deficit is specific to learning about medications (not the act of taking them) and is compounded by very low access to written medication information in patients' languages.

"among patients with chronic illnesses, LEP patients had lower medication-related self-efficacy scores than EP patients, which may put them at greater risk for medication taking errors and lower adherence." (Zhang, 2018)