Title |
Condições do letramento funcional em saúde de um grupo de idosos diabéticos
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Published in |
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, February 2016
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DOI | 10.1590/0034-7167.2016690121i |
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Authors |
Maria Izabel Penha de Oliveira Santos, Marilene Rodrigues Portella |
Abstract |
to evaluate the conditions of functional health literacy of an elderly diabetics group. cross-sectional and descriptive study, with diabetic's elderly assisted in the SUS (N = 114). The social and health conditions were evaluated as well as functional health literacy by S-TOFHLA test (short version); the simple proportions, average, standard deviation and Pearson's Chi-square were described by SPSS software (20.0) with α = 5% value. the mean age was 67.4 years, 74.0% of the elderly were women, had up to four years of schooling; 29.8% had a long-standing illness, 64.0% reported having high blood pressure, 47.4% smoke or were smokers, 73.7% had low functional health literacy, which was associated with schooling p = 0.001. the low functional health literacy could be a self-care conditioning and can be influenced by low schooling because it implies to have skills to understand and make decisions aimed at self-management of health. |
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Student > Master | 11 | 14% |
Student > Bachelor | 9 | 12% |
Researcher | 9 | 12% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 8% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 7% |
Other | 13 | 17% |
Unknown | 23 | 30% |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 18 | 24% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 17 | 22% |
Social Sciences | 5 | 7% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 3% |
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 2 | 3% |
Other | 9 | 12% |
Unknown | 23 | 30% |