Literacia em Saúde nos Cuidados Primários

Fernanda Lopes; Ana Cristina  Lima Mimoso Caramelo; Maria João Filomena   Santos Pinto Monteiro; Vitor Manuel  Costa Pereira Rodrigues; Maria da Conceição   Alves Rainho Soares Pereira; Isabel Maria o Antunes Rodrigues da Costa Barros

doi:10.6063/motricidade.34006

Health Literacy in Primary Care

Authors

Fernanda Lopes Aces Alto Tâmega e Barroso https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7282-4644
Ana Cristina Lima Mimoso Caramelo Centro Académico e Clínico de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, CACTMAD, Escola Superior de Saúde, Universidade de Trás-os- Montes e Alto Douro. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2540-682X
Maria João Filomena Santos Pinto Monteiro Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real
Vitor Manuel Costa Pereira Rodrigues Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2795-685X
Maria da Conceição Alves Rainho Soares Pereira Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real
Isabel Maria o Antunes Rodrigues da Costa Barros Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5112-6015

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6063/motricidade.34006

Keywords:

Health literacy, Primary Health Care, Nursing consultation

Abstract

The World Health Organization defines Health Literacy as a person's ability to obtain and understand basic health information and to use available health services responsibly. The present study aimed to assess the level of health literacy of patients attending a nursing consultation at a health centre in northern Portugal. It was an observational, cross-sectional, descriptive, and correlational study with a quantitative approach. One hundred subjects enrolled in the nursing consultation participated in the study, and data was collected using the health literacy questionnaire HLS-EU-PT. The majority of participants (63%) were female, aged between 18 and 94; most (34%) were 65 years and older, and 35% had completed their elementary school. As for health literacy, 32% of participants had an inadequate level, 56% a problematic level and 12% a sufficient level. The low levels of health literacy of the users of a nursing consultation who participated in the study indicate the need to implement intervention projects to empower participants and their families in health literacy and self-care.

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2024-03-31

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Lopes, F., Lima Mimoso Caramelo, A. C. ., Santos Pinto Monteiro, M. J. F., Costa Pereira Rodrigues , V. M., Alves Rainho Soares Pereira, M. da C. . ., & Antunes Rodrigues da Costa Barros, I. M. o. (2024). Health Literacy in Primary Care. Motricidade, 20(1), 102–107. https://doi.org/10.6063/motricidade.34006

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Vol. 20 No. 1 (2024): Continuing and Palliative Care: New Challenges in Health

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