You are invited to participate in a research study titled “The impact of using visual aids to improve patient understanding of coronary artery disease and its effects on medication adherence.” This study is being conducted by Jeannie Than, PAS-2, Darcy Solanyk PA-C, and Jennifer Hellier PhD. The purpose of this study is to determine if providing patients diagnosed with coronary artery disease with a visual aid to better understand their health condition would improve their likelihood of adhering to their heart disease medications. The data collected from this study will help determine the need for visual aids in clinic settings to improve patient understanding of their health conditions and the management of their condition. Participation in this study is entirely voluntary at all times. You can choose not to participate at all or to leave the study at any point. If you decide not to participate, or to leave the study, there will be no penalty or loss of benefits to which you are entitled, or any effect on your relationship with the researcher(s), or any other negative consequences. You are being asked to take part in this study because you are an individual who has been diagnosed with coronary artery disease and have been prescribed/recommended medications for a cholesterol lowering medication (statin) and/or an anti-platelet medication, aspirin. If you agree to participate, you will be asked to fill out two surveys about your general understanding of coronary artery disease as well as how often you take your medications. Each survey should take around five minutes each to complete. The first survey will be provided prior to viewing the visual aid document and the second will be offered after reviewing the visual aid. The surveys will be completed online through a secure survey platform called Qualtrics. All of your responses to this survey will remain anonymous and cannot be linked to you in any way. No identifying information about you will be collected at any point during the study, and your survey will be identified only with a unique identifier created from a 10 digit serious made of random letters and numbers you create. You are free to withdraw from this study at any time. However, once you submit your completed survey, there will be no way to withdraw your responses from the study because the survey contains no identifying information. Study data will be kept in a digital format through the Qualtrics platform. Access to digital data will be protected through the Qualtrics security platform. Additionally, the spreadsheet created from the survey results will be stored in a secure USB device and placed in a drawer with a lock. Only the researchers will have access to the data. Any risks to you associated with this study are not expected to be greater than anything you encounter in everyday life. While you will not experience any direct benefits from participation, information collected in this study may benefit others in the future by helping to improve the understanding of coronary artery disease and its effects on a person’s health. If you have any questions regarding the survey or this research project in general, please contact the principal investigator, Jeannie Than PAS-2, at Jeannie.Than@co.rvu.edu or her faculty mentor, Darcy Solanyk PA-C, at dsolanyk@rvu.edu. If you have any questions about your rights as a research participant, please contact the Rocky Vista University IRB Compliance Administrator at 720-874-2481 or ldement@rvu.edu . By completing and submitting this survey, you are indicating your consent to participate in this study.