Assessment of functional health literacy in Brazilian carers of older people

Individuals with low health literacy have less knowledge of their own health condition. Carers play a key role in older people's activities of daily living. to evaluate the performance of carers of older people using the S-TOFHLA (Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults) and to ident...

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Published in:Dementia & neuropsychologia 2019-06, Vol.13 (2), p.180-186
Main Authors: de Almeida, Kaoana Maria Vieira, Toye, Christine, Silveira, Liciana Vaz de Arruda, Slatyer, Susan, Hill, Keith, Jacinto, Alessandro Ferrari
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
aged
caregivers
CLINICAL NEUROLOGY
educational status
GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY
HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES
health education
health literacy
MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL
NURSING
Original
PSYCHIATRY
PSYCHOLOGY
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Summary:Individuals with low health literacy have less knowledge of their own health condition. Carers play a key role in older people's activities of daily living. to evaluate the performance of carers of older people using the S-TOFHLA (Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults) and to identify caregiver characteristics associated with low functional health literacy. a cross-sectional study was conducted. The S-TOFHLA, a sociodemographic instrument, the Mini-Mental State Exam and the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 were applied to 80 carers of older patients routinely followed by doctors from the Primary Health Care Sector of the City of Botucatu, São Paulo. The multivariate analysis used an ordinal logistic regression model with test (S-TOFHLA) scores as the dependent variable. The level of statistical significance adopted was 0.05. the individuals had a mean age of 54.6 (± 11.7); 27% of the carers evaluated had inadequate levels of health literacy (S-TOFHLA ≥54). A higher proportion of individuals with low education had inadequate or marginal health literacy (p
ISSN:1980-5764
1980-5764
DOI:10.1590/1980-57642018dn13-020006